<?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[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38523]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as well, into something hip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are in some brown study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58040]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are in some brown study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50633]]></link><description><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62923]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must recognize ourselves in others before we can acknowledge otherness in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must recognize ourselves in others before we can acknowledge otherness in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in the Lord's Prayer would seem almost rude. One does not find the optative forms of polite petition so characteristic of elaborate requests made to earthly and heavenly potentates. Rather than employing such august forms, the Christians made their requests to God in what seem to be blunt imperatives. This does not mean that Christians lacked respect for their heavenly father, but it does mean that they were consistent with a new understanding of Him. In the tens of thousands of papyri fragments which have been rescued from the rubbish heaps of the ancient Greek world, one finds the imperative forms used constantly between members of a family. When the Christians addressed God as "Father," it was perfectly natural therefore for them to talk to Him as intimately as they would to their own father. Unfortunately, the history of our own English language has almost reversed this process. Originally, men used "thou" and "thee" in prayer because it was the appropriate familiar form of address; but now these words have become relegated to prayer alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a paradise   If thou wert there, if thou were there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57539</guid></item></channel></rss>