<?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[Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,   Whose joys are chastened by their grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be a sea change, but I don't think so. I think it's more circumstances than anything else. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be a sea change, but I don't think so. I think it's more circumstances than anything else. Let's give it a couple of more years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't listen to a lot of music, and wouldn't necessarily sit down and put on the radio. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't listen to a lot of music, and wouldn't necessarily sit down and put on the radio. If I did, I'd probably put on a bit of classical stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time we hate that which we often fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time we hate that which we often fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be more specific. ...This year the show will lose $16 million for The WB, and that's with a license ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be more specific. ...This year the show will lose $16 million for The WB, and that's with a license fee reduction from last year. At least to us, that's a big number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23315]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties with things like time management.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a deciding being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22675]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a deciding being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift much expected is paid, not given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift much expected is paid, not given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one team a year that goes out the way they want to go out. We didn't go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one team a year that goes out the way they want to go out. We didn't go out the way we wanted to go out this year, but the seniors were great. They were great leaders. I'm going to miss all that. We came up short of a place where we wanted to go, but there's always next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a paradise   If thou wert there, if thou were there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3328]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law of Moses to the order of creation. While, therefore, the Law of Moses is from one aspect the first stage of revelation, leading up to the Law of Christ, in another aspect it is a temporary expedient on the way from the Law of Nature to the Law of Christ, serving certain limited purposes, which fulfilled, it may be set aside, leaving mankind in Christ confronted by the original law of his creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16966]]></link><description><![CDATA[But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mind is open and awakethen.... do the gods partaketo fill the spaces inbetweenthe dreamer and his dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mind is open and awakethen.... do the gods partaketo fill the spaces inbetweenthe dreamer and his dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an extra layer of security to enhance the comfort of the fans. But it has to be implemented properly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an extra layer of security to enhance the comfort of the fans. But it has to be implemented properly, and the teams are in charge of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65264]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27849]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe that $55 oil prices are, at least for the time being, something of the past and that jobs are just improving at a moderate pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, we found fossils that allow us to connect the first phase of human evolution and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30083]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, we found fossils that allow us to connect the first phase of human evolution and the second phase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lonely is the person who is no ones number 1 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lonely is the person who is no ones number 1]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1587</guid></item></channel></rss>