<?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[No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/891]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And not a vanity is given in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60384]]></link><description><![CDATA[And not a vanity is given in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31081]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We kind of wanted to make a statement that if we play you in the playoffs, this is what you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older and younger players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to His mind and will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52018]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paperuntil drops of blood form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paperuntil drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18626]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always fascinated by India. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always fascinated by India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53157]]></link><description><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83]]></link><description><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2300]]></link><description><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35217]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, terror, and delight   Of distant nations; whose remotest shore    Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;     Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults      Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms while doing their best to avoid walking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is HUGE! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23143]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is HUGE!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never actually doubted that Jeff is alive and I never doubted that Jill Carroll will be released and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never actually doubted that Jeff is alive and I never doubted that Jill Carroll will be released and I am celebrating her release. I'm very happy for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. -Grenville Kleiser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world thinks I'm a slut and a whore. That's what I'm going to have to cope with for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world thinks I'm a slut and a whore. That's what I'm going to have to cope with for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66740]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66740</guid></item></channel></rss>