<?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[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21452]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have decided to make sure that we're cautious about how we're operating, and I have nothing to say further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have decided to make sure that we're cautious about how we're operating, and I have nothing to say further than that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no transforming of darkness into light andof apathy into movement without emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no transforming of darkness into light andof apathy into movement without emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare;   But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent    Most disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32455]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11933]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12387]]></link><description><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58140]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59432]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12884]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ... the unions and the special interests that listen to her and have them recognize they are destroying jobs and opportunities in the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54940]]></link><description><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   A little shade, the only one;    But shadows ever man pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have,  Not knowing them until we know their grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have,  Not knowing them until we know their grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891</guid></item></channel></rss>