<?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[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16351]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love sincerer than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we willimmediately feel overwhelmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19084]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of "religion".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18427]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/398]]></link><description><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50155]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38424]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62960]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may be claim'd again which was but lent,   And should be yielded with no discontent,    Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,     That it was left us to enjoy it long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28049]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10080</guid></item></channel></rss>