<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19412]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual freedom mute,    . . . .     Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,      Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63215]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41065]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea appears all golden Beneath the sun-lit sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea appears all golden Beneath the sun-lit sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine;  But might I of Jove's nectar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine;  But might I of Jove's nectar sup,   I would not change for thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14654]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."--- Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but simply God Himself. He has taken the initiative from the beginning, and has built our prayers into the structure of the universe. He then asks us to present these requests to Him that He may show His gracious hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45847]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are thrilled and honored to host such well-known and admired outdoor sports celebrities. We want to thank all our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are thrilled and honored to host such well-known and admired outdoor sports celebrities. We want to thank all our customers for their patience and understanding during our construction and renovation. We hope they will be pleased with our new look and this year's line-up of Septemberfest events and activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3734]]></link><description><![CDATA[... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away  Over the snowy peaks! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8908]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away  Over the snowy peaks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8908</guid></item></channel></rss>