<?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[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use it or lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use it or lose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting pictures mile on mile,    Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths     Whence a smokeless incense breathes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36624]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under the market economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hall-Dale had done it with four of those mobile lighting stations for field hockey. So I called Kennebec Rental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hall-Dale had done it with four of those mobile lighting stations for field hockey. So I called Kennebec Rental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is incompatible with understanding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is incompatible with understanding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just shook his head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29117]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just shook his head,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got to keep our heads up and play the ball we've been playing. We got to beat Robinson. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got to keep our heads up and play the ball we've been playing. We got to beat Robinson. We have to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4496]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65077]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that good teams win even when they don't play their best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled;  Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54335]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled;  Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,   And with the Tweed had travelled;    And when we came to Clovenford,     Then said "my winsome marrow,"      "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,       And see the braes of Yarrow."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, this is obviously a relief for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item></channel></rss>