<?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[Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288]]></link><description><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32918]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet again the politicians and bosses won and the people of New Jersey lose. The judges have totally thrown out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet again the politicians and bosses won and the people of New Jersey lose. The judges have totally thrown out the rights of the people in this state to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis  Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56595]]></link><description><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to make the local market inoperative and erect a strong barrier to the entry of foreign capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to make the local market inoperative and erect a strong barrier to the entry of foreign capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[post-apocalyptic fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38846]]></link><description><![CDATA[post-apocalyptic fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49688]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was a glimpse of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and hit it with a hammer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38708]]></link><description><![CDATA[and hit it with a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's OK. We don't worry about rankings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38922]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's OK. We don't worry about rankings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can beanything you want to be, have anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21989]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can beanything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything youset out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness ofpurpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself very worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33573]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself very worthy of this place in history and will serve as an inspiration for women the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm doing very well, soon to be good as new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm doing very well, soon to be good as new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances are valid reasons for concern, but they do not on face value substantiate that the machines are not reliable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51572</guid></item><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[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48004</guid></item></channel></rss>