<?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[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)http://www.epa.gov/greenacreshttp://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowersyou. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowersyou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. There's not much rationality in a greed environment and there's not much rationality in a fear environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24099]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies safe for thee    A little nest on the ground."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44807]]></link><description><![CDATA['Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably has some of the best putting strokes I have ever seen. He just really seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably has some of the best putting strokes I have ever seen. He just really seems to be able to handle every adverse situation well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.      Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45337]]></link><description><![CDATA[St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at bo-peep    Did soon draw in agen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25903]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817</guid></item></channel></rss>