<?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[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a much better picture of species distribution throughout the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908]]></link><description><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation that doth goad us on   To sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg.  We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart,   But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vagina can't give a monologue! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29931]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vagina can't give a monologue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292]]></link><description><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58977]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;   Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that there is none else that He cares for, is one of the lies of the enemy. What father is not pleased with the first tottering attempt of his little one to walk? What father would be satisfied with anything but the manly step of the full-grown son?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55496]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17576]]></link><description><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements Educate the eye and lip With one's refreshing innocence, The other's claim to scholarship. The serpent's knowledge of the world Learn, and the dove's more naïve charm; Whether your ringlets should be curled, And why he likes his claret warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hall-Dale had done it with four of those mobile lighting stations for field hockey. So I called Kennebec Rental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hall-Dale had done it with four of those mobile lighting stations for field hockey. So I called Kennebec Rental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6180]]></link><description><![CDATA[However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the faculty of decision. If you are determined in your purpose, if you have the will to do the Will, then with half a creed and less than half a pious ecstasy, you are at least in the line of the purpose of Jesus Christ; and as you will to do His will, may come some day to know the teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42184]]></link><description><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small piece of land. We need a lot of space and it's going to need a lot of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20106]]></link><description><![CDATA[WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44290]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19441]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5370]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item></channel></rss>