<?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[In doing we learne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49536]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19130]]></link><description><![CDATA[From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awful. Those poor girls. You shouldn't have to get your story in the paper to get it fixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29339]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awful. Those poor girls. You shouldn't have to get your story in the paper to get it fixed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15970]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons,  The length of breeches and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons,  The length of breeches and the gathers   Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160]]></link><description><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique  Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27113]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!  That weapon of her weakness she can wield,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!  That weapon of her weakness she can wield,   To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chance and Phil hit a screamer, but they made the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chance and Phil hit a screamer, but they made the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we win, we still have a chance to win the district championship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .   A tree depicts divinest plan,    But God himself lives in a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41884]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 mark. This is a much more egalitarian market and that's a healthy development. It suggests a more sustainable market over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53201]]></link><description><![CDATA[All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53201</guid></item></channel></rss>