<?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[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK banks provide a crucial service to the community and our economic security depends on them. Amicus is calling on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42007]]></link><description><![CDATA[UK banks provide a crucial service to the community and our economic security depends on them. Amicus is calling on National Australia to reverse this decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55378]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12915]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59398]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25296]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26837]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26435]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42486]]></link><description><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is patience concentrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is patience concentrated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33667]]></link><description><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44868]]></link><description><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33258]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61602]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest of distinctions is service to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest of distinctions is service to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and it was over with. It happened so fast I didn't have time to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17828]]></link><description><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60228</guid></item></channel></rss>