<?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[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung  Is half so sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59252]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung  Is half so sweet as thrushes sang   When my dear love and I were young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both scoring goals. They can be a pretty powerful one-two punch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that [children are] any more resilient than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that [children are] any more resilient than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not knowing where the entrance was and getting lost and having to ask people where to go and walking through with my bag and being kind of like, 'Where do I go? Where's my locker?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64428]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22201]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;  He hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59974]]></link><description><![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;  He hath not touched you yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12557]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9123]]></link><description><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our lamplit race,   And each from each takes heart of grace    And spirit till his turn be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63581]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about a cluster of Hispanics in south Austin and a cluster on the border and a bunch of empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about a cluster of Hispanics in south Austin and a cluster on the border and a bunch of empty districts joining them all together. The court has said that is suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,  Which he may adhere to, yet disown, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,  Which he may adhere to, yet disown,   For reasons to himself best known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48982]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4337]]></link><description><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor told me he thinks it's a bad back spasm and hopefully he'll be OK. He doesn't think it's anything serious that will keep him out for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. [Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret:  Le porter loin est difficile aux dames;   Et je sais meme sur ce fait    Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54982</guid></item></channel></rss>