<?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 learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14870]]></link><description><![CDATA[With faces like dead lovers who died true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/433]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,   Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold--    For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63726]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wouldachieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21075]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wouldachieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly mustsacrifice greatly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51312]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11275]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that antidepressants cause suicides; all the evidence points to the fact that antidepressants do just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53131]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,  When nearer seen, and better known,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,  When nearer seen, and better known,   Are but gigantic flights of stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king of Spain with twenty thousand more   Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18849]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that you have a former friend for foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48748]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that you have a former friend for foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo.  Red cataracts of France to-day   Awake, three thousand miles away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo.  Red cataracts of France to-day   Awake, three thousand miles away,    An echo of Niagara     The cataract of Niagara.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still progressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still progressing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17205]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17205</guid></item></channel></rss>