<?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[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calfwithin Californiamany calves drowned in Chino mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2648]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calfwithin Californiamany calves drowned in Chino mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations' process head-on and significantly increases the potential for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33674]]></link><description><![CDATA[This new voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations' process head-on and significantly increases the potential for the widest and most diverse selection of nominees possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about this group is, when you look at them individually, there is no 'stunning' talent. But when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about this group is, when you look at them individually, there is no 'stunning' talent. But when they get together as a group, they're far more impressive. That's the power that this group has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54329]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open and I told him, ?Settle down, we'll get you open off screens.' Then we started running our man offense and that was getting other people open so he didn't have to score. We got other people in the flow and exploded the middle of their box-and-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53195]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18538]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to our algorithms, find some order in this. We're creating these from scratch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491]]></link><description><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once more fits   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54092]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast   O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside in the moment of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own proportion and standard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own proportion and standard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes. So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61226]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game, ... But I never expected our best score in the state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game, ... But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28791</guid></item></channel></rss>