<?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[His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12135]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54092]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast   O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41428]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the truest representatives right now of their genres. The experience between us is over 50 years. They're not the hottest thing right now because they have a No. 1 single. What they embody is . . . music in the truest form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19813</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[It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47099]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54864]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52297]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27195]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all make mistakes but one has to move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all make mistakes but one has to move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's impressed. He continues to take steps forward in his development, and we're excited about the progress he's made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's impressed. He continues to take steps forward in his development, and we're excited about the progress he's made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14572]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15570]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15570</guid></item></channel></rss>