<?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[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to create for the film was a sensual feeling using the traditional Japanese kimono as our key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32083]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to create for the film was a sensual feeling using the traditional Japanese kimono as our key starting point. We took the creation of the kimono and changed it to make it something that the modern, Western audience would relate to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15613]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   I know there are many who have pitied my beginnings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   I know there are many who have pitied my beginnings, thinking it tragic that I had to endure such traumas both as a child and throughout my life, but I confess that I have rather pitied those who have never tasted the bitterness of a trial "too severe." For how is one to appreciate the contrast of light's dawning hope if his soul has never trembled through the dark hours of a nightmare's watch? Or how can one prove God's faithfulness if he never is granted the privilege of wandering through a barren desert, where only pools of Christ's Presence can possibly provide survival? It is a great honor to be apportioned pain. Christ Himself, though God incarnate, learned obedience through what He suffered. Dare we assume that we as His children can be taught by any wiser or kinder instructor than the severity of unwanted pain? We dare not steel ourselves against our trials, running away from the fires where our pruned branches crumble to ashes. For if we escape those flames, we will risk barrenness of soul and will miss out on the beauty that only is born through the ashes of yesterday's grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42612]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47396]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48617]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything depends on political developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything depends on political developments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let the other fellow set the agenda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let the other fellow set the agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3077]]></link><description><![CDATA["For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give it only a moral connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its root in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love, pride, these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and reverence for God's will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,   Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28831</guid></item></channel></rss>