<?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[Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11897]]></link><description><![CDATA[In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-trust is the first secret of success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-trust is the first secret of success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth like a blanketthat always leavesyour feet coldscreenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth like a blanketthat always leavesyour feet coldscreenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5597]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25962]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. Higginson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, what we try to do if we have a game where we have to play for 32 minutes is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, what we try to do if we have a game where we have to play for 32 minutes is try to wear them down by playing full court. But if we get ahead by a good margin, then we'll call off the dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50863]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first.  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first.  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52361]]></link><description><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father in a canoein which his baby is seatedwalks more carefully than on land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father in a canoein which his baby is seatedwalks more carefully than on land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2762]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42233]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51863]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're pretty fair. It seems that partisanship is not an issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34149]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're pretty fair. It seems that partisanship is not an issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7294]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". He is somewhere in the recesses of our soul, in the springs of our existence, a light in that mysterious region of our nature where the wishes, feelings, thoughts, and emotions take their earliest rise. The mind is a sanctuary, in the center of which the Lord sits enthroned, the lamp of consciousness burning before Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51538]]></link><description><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16982]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -George Soros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231</guid></item></channel></rss>