<?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[All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24975]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3705]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had tried,   And sorrow but more closely tied;    That stood the storm when waves were rough,     Yet in a sunny hour fall off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must recapture the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7942]]></link><description><![CDATA[If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must recapture the basic conviction that this is a Visited planet. It is not enough to express formal belief in the "Incarnation" or in the "Divinity of. Christ"; the staggering truth must be accepted afresh -- that in this vast, mysterious universe, of which we are an almost infinitesimal part, the great Mystery, Whom we call God, has visited our planet in Person. It is from this conviction that there springs unconquerable certainty and unquenchable faith and hope. It is not enough to believe theoretically that Jesus was both God and Man; not enough to admire, respect, and even worship Him; it is not even enough to try to follow Him. The reason for the insufficiency of these things is that the modern intelligent mind, which has had its horizons widened in dozens of different ways, has got to be shocked afresh by the audacious central Fact -- that, as a sober matter of history, God became one of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3058]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44162]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Their own desire for the revelation of the glory of Jesus in the salvation of men went out towards those whom they met, and was immediately answered by the recognition of the need of those whom they met for Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which disfigures it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was something deep down inside I wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37957]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was something deep down inside I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25582]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,  Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52695]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43363]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26065]]></link><description><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64833]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. We can offer a casino a revenue enhancement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2464</guid></item></channel></rss>