<?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[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46037]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever yet became great by imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20578]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever yet became great by imitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5746]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke by saying no too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22375]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke by saying no too often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition for our shortcomings, using sorrowful and self-accusing words. And this often in all sincerity. But, at other times, we are not really much disturbed about it; or, at least, not nearly so much as our heaped-up language would imply. What we imagine that we are achieving through this unreality I do not know. We shall not fool the All-wise; nor induce Him to believe that we are anything other, or better, than we actually are! Were it not saner to tell Him the truth, exactly as it is -- not that we are overwhelmed with sorrow for our sinfulness, if it is not so; but rather this, that, to all our other sinfulness, we have added this last and crowning sinfulness, that we are not much worried about it, or, at least, not nearly as much as we ought to be. Be pleased, in pity, to grant us such measure of sorrow for our failures as will lead us to a true repentance; and, through that, to a new way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all have got the seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10164]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32004]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up a combined 17 per cent from a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/298]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17074]]></link><description><![CDATA[For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music can change the world because it can change people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music can change the world because it can change people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45573]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35203]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from all duty free,   And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no more, and shall no more return.   Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;    I stay a little longer, as one stays     To cover up the embers that still burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15189]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105</guid></item></channel></rss>