<?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[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59526]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4297]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46615]]></link><description><![CDATA[None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2025]]></link><description><![CDATA[In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43492]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can a poet's long rainbowof wordsplay our heartstrings from afar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48555]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?  Bravely! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?  Bravely! said he; for I of late have been   Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long time between drinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long time between drinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create the end product without hands-on training.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the land. The land is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the land. The land is you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5477</guid></item></channel></rss>