<?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[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25293]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; she, good cateress,   Means her provision only to the good,    That live according to her sober laws,     And holy dictate of spare temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62945]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we are in a grace period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we are in a grace period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the unexpected soon Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard, A sinner does the task you should assume, A leper who is cleansed must show his proof: Suddenly you see your very roof remove And a cripple clutters up your living-room. There's no telling what to expect when Christ Walks in the door. The table set for four Must often be enlarged, and decorum Thrown to the winds. It's His voice that calls them, And it's no use to bolt and bar the door: His kingdom knows no bounds of roof, of wall or floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45457]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode  Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height,   Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46494]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with consumer electronics makers to reach the consumer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To just keep any kind of terrorist or suspected terrorist off the plane initially, that obviously is our No. 1 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37275]]></link><description><![CDATA[To just keep any kind of terrorist or suspected terrorist off the plane initially, that obviously is our No. 1 goal. Getting that information ahead of time can effectively do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many can argue; not many converse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many can argue; not many converse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guest and a fish after three days are poison ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guest and a fish after three days are poison]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62124]]></link><description><![CDATA[And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;  But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,   Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64221]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is pursuing it (the anti-Israel line) because he doesn't really have any choice internally. Otherwise he will be sidelined. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is pursuing it (the anti-Israel line) because he doesn't really have any choice internally. Otherwise he will be sidelined. It's very hard, even for people like Rafsanjani, to adopt a more moderate stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a marked man, his time has come. He's the son of God for heaven's sake, he knows his words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39704]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a marked man, his time has come. He's the son of God for heaven's sake, he knows his words are revolutionary, they're rocking the boats, challenging the vested interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25139</guid></item></channel></rss>