<?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[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity is there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity is there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a unique way. I encourage small-business owners and their employees to take their daughters to work with them on this special day, as I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29752]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58048]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have their pasta, but they're willing to eat a sensible portion with lots of vegetables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have their pasta, but they're willing to eat a sensible portion with lots of vegetables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interdependency follows independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interdependency follows independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one end pursues,   And only change the expiring flames renews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,   Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;    And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,     The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear      To stop the air would hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48139]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do I want one (a state title)? Dang right, but I'm not gonna sell my soul for one. I'm a purist. There are a lot of different championships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will undergo intensive treatment and will be reassessed late next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will undergo intensive treatment and will be reassessed late next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42821</guid></item></channel></rss>