<?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 are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,   Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a couple of shifts later. They turn things around so quickly, it's frustrating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41688]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating healthfully. The time came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating healthfully. The time came when the Church had ceased to grow, except externally in wealth, power, and prestige; and these are mere outward adornments, or hampering burdens, very likely. They do not imply growth or creativeness. The time came when dogmatism, tyranny, and ignorance strangled the free intellectual activity of the Church, and worldliness destroyed its moral fruitfulness. Then joy spread her wings and flew away. The Christian graces care nothing for names and labels; where the Spirit of the Lord is, there they abide, but not in great Churches that have forgotten Him. How little of joy there is in the character of the religious bigot or fanatic, or in the prudent ecclesiastical statesman! A show of cheerfulness they may cultivate, as they often do; but it is like the crackling of thorns under a pot: we cannot mistake it for the joy of the Lord which is the strength of the true Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To life the grass and violets sprang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a lot of work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57856]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any man living should outgo me in desires that all who fear God throughout the world, especially in these nations, were of one way as well as of one heart. I know I desire it sincerely; but I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it, it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25300]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15869]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To keep one from going nude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59190]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13959</guid></item></channel></rss>