<?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[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn  When Christ for all shall risen be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13145]]></link><description><![CDATA[O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn  When Christ for all shall risen be,   And in all hearts new-born!    That Pentecost when utterance clear     To all men shall be given,      When all shall say My Brother here,       And hear My Son in heaven!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only want people around me who can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only want people around me who can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52262]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   As if her merit lessen'd yours?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23198]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its tree, Juniper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26370]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its tree, Juniper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/245]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14215]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes him so good and why he does very well at both levels, club and country, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes him so good and why he does very well at both levels, club and country, is the fact he does very well with his opportunities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the divisions of the Christian Church sees clearly the advantage of a united Christian front and cannot see why the Churches cannot 'get together'. The problem is doubtless complicated, for there are many honest differences held with equal sincerity, but it is only made insoluble because the different denominations are (possibly unconsciously) imagining God to be Roman or Anglican or Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or what have you. If they could see beyond their little inadequate god, and glimpse the reality of God, they might even laugh a little and perhaps weep a little. The result would be a unity that actually does transcend differences, instead of ignoring them with public politeness and private contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28919]]></link><description><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28919</guid></item></channel></rss>