<?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[Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58341]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run!  Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,   And there followed some droppings of rain:    But now the fair traveller's come to the west,     His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;      He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,       And foretells a bright rising again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50785]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691]]></link><description><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/324]]></link><description><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm 27. Everybody knows when you get around 30, 30-plus, you start to depreciate. I wanted to have that security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm 27. Everybody knows when you get around 30, 30-plus, you start to depreciate. I wanted to have that security of knowing I would be in the same place for the next three or four years or the next five or six years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27717]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found that to be a very successful recruiting tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found that to be a very successful recruiting tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate;  What's the use to anticipate sorrow? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate;  What's the use to anticipate sorrow?   Life's troubles come never too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time creatively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time creatively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. Not only at the beginning, but repeatedly, there will be times when we feel a great spiritual dryness and apathy, an aversion, even an inability to meditate. We dare not be balked by such experiences. Above all, we must not allow them to keep us from adhering to our meditation period with great patience and fidelity.  It is, therefore, not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. It is here that our old vanity and our illicit claims upon God may creep in by a pious detour, as if it were our right to have nothing but elevating and fruitful experiences, and as if the discovery of our own inner poverty were quite beneath our dignity. With that attitude, we shall make no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item></channel></rss>