<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The concept behind the bill is something that everyone agrees on . I think we just disagree on how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept behind the bill is something that everyone agrees on . I think we just disagree on how to get there. It's going to take a lot of discussion and education on both sides to get this done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664   When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM". "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22196]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permitus to use powers that we now are not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permitus to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.   ... John Henry Newman  September 10, 2000   Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.   ... Luis Palau  September 11, 2000   Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.   ... Robert Louis Stevenson  September 12, 2000   Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's obviously a ton of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's obviously a ton of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never had ill workeman good tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never had ill workeman good tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates . That's when I knew Caleb Mangum had arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never hoped can never despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never hoped can never despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to waste labour about trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to waste labour about trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That says a lot about him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That is precisely the type of transaction the Senate wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44202]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. - Wisdom for Our Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would,  Acts little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would,  Acts little of his will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58680]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39327]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49342]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9539]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take that life, beseech you, Which I so often owe; but your ring first,  And here the bracelet of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take that life, beseech you, Which I so often owe; but your ring first,  And here the bracelet of the truest princess   That ever swore her faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52189]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49686]]></link><description><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue?  Does aught of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue?  Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile?   That meadow, those daisies, why do they not smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16257</guid></item></channel></rss>