<?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[Skeptics are never deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind in ones face makes one wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind in ones face makes one wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You harp perpetually on the same string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51759]]></link><description><![CDATA[You harp perpetually on the same string.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des tyrans.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Jesus takes possession of our life, it is not only that the past is forgotten and forgiven; if that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7507]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Jesus takes possession of our life, it is not only that the past is forgotten and forgiven; if that were all, we might well proceed to make the same mess of life all over again; but into life there enters this new power which enables us to be what by ourselves we could never be, and to do what by ourselves we could never do. Water and the Spirit stand for the cleansing and the strengthening power of Christ, which wipes out the past and which gives us victory in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10487]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none say, I will not drinke water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none say, I will not drinke water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65802]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61776]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176]]></link><description><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61667</guid></item></channel></rss>