<?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[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study ofbooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study ofbooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom said that the food they give you here tastes like dog food, but I don't think it's that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31595]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom said that the food they give you here tastes like dog food, but I don't think it's that bad now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has to be tough because it changes the routine, the lifestyle the players are accustomed to. Families are scattered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30373]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has to be tough because it changes the routine, the lifestyle the players are accustomed to. Families are scattered, kids are in different schools. It's a big adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him", may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet", is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46201]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12374]]></link><description><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one gather around me,   To bid me good-night and be kissed;    On, the little white arms that encircle     My neck in their tender embrace      Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,       Shedding sunshine of love on my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a doubt, there's greater scrutiny, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a doubt, there's greater scrutiny,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41236</guid></item></channel></rss>