<?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[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apostolic teaching about Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apostolic teaching about Christ was the theory that the body which our Lord took at His coming into the world was not a real body but a phantom one. He only seemed to inhabit a material body, and from the Greek word dokein ["to seem"], people who held this theory were known as Docetists. But if Christ's incarnation was unreal, His death and resurrection were also unreal; and the whole gospel message was thus evacuated of its truth and power: one unhappy legacy of this short-lived phase of Christian heresy remains to bedevil Christian witness to Muslims up to the present day. For when the Koran says of Jesus that "they did not kill Him, nor did they crucify Him, but they thought they did", we may infer that Muhammad was indebted for this idea to a Christian source tainted with Docetism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen recontre erkennen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[want to destroy him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34821]]></link><description><![CDATA[want to destroy him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40461]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're applying a bit more pressure up top. We added an extra offensive midfielder. We tried to take it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're applying a bit more pressure up top. We added an extra offensive midfielder. We tried to take it to them today so we could maybe have success early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43731]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History does not always repeat itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64138]]></link><description><![CDATA[History does not always repeat itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23009]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is a man's invention and his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose andthen where are you?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great   As when a giant dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39328]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soule needs few things, the body many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soule needs few things, the body many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42474]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27741]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'll be a solid number, but it won't post the 8.2 percent growth we saw for the third quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'll be a solid number, but it won't post the 8.2 percent growth we saw for the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that could bring trouble for us. Brazil still needs foreign financing this year...so we need the flow of foreign funds to continue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61718]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50571</guid></item></channel></rss>