<?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[Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth?  Hath the violet less brightness   For growing near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth?  Hath the violet less brightness   For growing near earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63352]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5707]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur;  "Tis the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur;  "Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich,   As the gifts of the Wise Ones were,    And we are not told whose gift was gold,     Or whose was the gift of myrrh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. [Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum  Non civium ardor prava jubentium,   Non vultus instantis tyranni,    Mente quatit solida.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24150]]></link><description><![CDATA[18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66426]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21165]]></link><description><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,  Gloves as sweet as damask roses,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,  Gloves as sweet as damask roses,   Masks for faces and for noses,    Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,     Perfume for a lady's chamber,      Golden quoifs and stomachers       For my lads to give their dears,        Pins and poking-sticks of steel,         What maids lack from head to heel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8388]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and other government watch lists. And we succeeded in doing so by making public hundreds of pages of documents that not only confirmed the existence of the 'no fly' list, but exposed many of the serious problems with the secret list. Only by informed public debate can we make our government accountable and our country safer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favour is half granted, when graciously refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we continue to see a court monitor as unnecessary and counter productive, we are open to finding ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37028]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we continue to see a court monitor as unnecessary and counter productive, we are open to finding ways to work together to better address issues of concern to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14612]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59061</guid></item></channel></rss>