<?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[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been only three years, but after all that has happened it seems like a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42703]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been only three years, but after all that has happened it seems like a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887]]></link><description><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and orgasm are great bedfellows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and orgasm are great bedfellows]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47727]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52297]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30162]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden evils are most dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden evils are most dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,   Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conceived well is expressed clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conceived well is expressed clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35736]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible to avoid any war in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has been selected theme of the meeting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more depth on the offensive line this year than ever, and we wanted to keep him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more depth on the offensive line this year than ever, and we wanted to keep him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34691</guid></item></channel></rss>