<?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 main storm dynamics are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although the last, not least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although the last, not least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a "safe" code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative.  So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a no-brainer because my father played football, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38883]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a no-brainer because my father played football,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23282]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18372]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that is yours. The only place on the planet that understands you. It understands the way your nerves flare everytime you think about talking to anyone, scared into shyness at the thought of opening your mouth but the way you are the best hypocrite around when you're in front of a microphone. It knows what turns that switch on and off and on again. It understands the way when you don't have a smile on your face everyone only spits: "what's wrong"s and "you look tired"s. So the way you keep it on your face just wide enough to avoid questions. It understands how neurotic you have become, the way you treat your flaws like old friends. The way you look in the mirror and think of yourself as "Mr. Misery"...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou sat'st a queen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I didn't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37334]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I didn't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea,  The orange flower perfumes the bower, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea,  The orange flower perfumes the bower,   The breeze is on the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65959]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45787]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60139]]></link><description><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25979]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2437</guid></item></channel></rss>