<?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[Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor slide into his veins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The international community needs to continue to help and you can certainly count on the United States to continue to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The international community needs to continue to help and you can certainly count on the United States to continue to help as well,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54485]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly hung   Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101]]></link><description><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   We assemble not in the church to pass away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   We assemble not in the church to pass away the time, but to gain some great benefit for our souls. If therefore we depart without profit, our zeal in frequenting the church will prove our condemnation. That so great a judgment comes not upon you, when ye go hence ponder the things ye have heard, and exercise yourselves in confirming our instruction -- friend with friend, fathers with their children, masters with their slaves -- so that, when ye return hither and hear from us the same counsels, ye may not be ashamed, but rejoice and be glad in the conviction that ye have put into practice the greater part of our exhortation. Not only must we meditate upon these things here -- for this short exhortation sufficeth not to eradicate the evil -- but at home let the husband be reminded of them by the wife, and the wife by the husband, and let an emulation obtain in families to the fulfilment of the divine law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, you have 100% of your life left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, you have 100% of your life left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13806]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</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[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had been nominated for best actor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47764]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,   We are enforced to farm our royal realm,    The revenue whereof shall furnish us     For our affairs in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28667]]></link><description><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight,  Comes o'er the councils of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight,  Comes o'er the councils of the brave,   And blasts them in their hour of might!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59635</guid></item></channel></rss>