<?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[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's life after 401(k). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's life after 401(k).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17651]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15020]]></link><description><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10799]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some credit in being jolly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some credit in being jolly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35723]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41549]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,   Till the white-wing'd reapers come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute the Moorish flute,   And nodding guards watch wearily,    On, then let me,     From prison free,      March out by moonlight cheerily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this and take them across the country with them and that's how these bands come to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we made it real hard for them to enter the zone. Once they got it in, as soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we made it real hard for them to enter the zone. Once they got it in, as soon as we had a chance to force, we did. We were getting the puck out when we had a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At our wittes end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At our wittes end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49131]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26270</guid></item></channel></rss>