<?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[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39521]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students out of the way because the AC unit is leaking on one side of the class. I saw a teacher move a row of kids over because water was leaking on one side of the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid this would set a precedent and end up nibbling away at our coastline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34474]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid this would set a precedent and end up nibbling away at our coastline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   Looking seaward well assured    That the word the vessel brings     Is the word they wish to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14837]]></link><description><![CDATA[With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw   And pined his loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out it's context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies. Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence Science's view of intelligence itself has begun to change. Historically, "intelligence" has been defined simply as mental capacity. Some have even proposed that it is, therefore, fixed, finite, and genetically predetermined. Now it appears intelligence has other dimensions as well, physiologically and emotionally. We all have considerably more intelligence than we thought; we just have not learned to bring our capacity for intelligence into coherence. Martin Luther King, Jr. -W. MacNeile Dixon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're so involved. They really believe in what they're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32677]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're so involved. They really believe in what they're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55566]]></link><description><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41069]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we really realized we needed to get down and do our business. We kept them close with fouls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we really realized we needed to get down and do our business. We kept them close with fouls in the first half. After that we realized we wanted it. We wanted this game so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12504]]></link><description><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a sweet command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a sweet command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708]]></link><description><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known;  The fool consistent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known;  The fool consistent, and the false sincere;   Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63487]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61033]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11788]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11788</guid></item></channel></rss>