<?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[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to plant new ones for the next centuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36626]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero.  Mittens with the fur-side inside,   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44615]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero.  Mittens with the fur-side inside,   With the fur-side next his fingers    So's to keep the hand warm inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994]]></link><description><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may define therapy as a search for value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may define therapy as a search for value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41054]]></link><description><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after a loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices, thank you! Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60924]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices, thank you! Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,  I have no further with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25457]]></link><description><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,   Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immediate priority is 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immediate priority is 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the body and the mind. If a man does not exercise his arm, he develops no biceps muscles and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian character -- the Christ-like nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought of his age, we seem to be assuming that the thought of his age was erroneous. When we select for serious consideration those doctrines which "transcend" the thought of his own age and are "for all time", we are assuming that the thought of our age is correct: for of course by thoughts which transcend the great man's age we really mean thoughts that agree with ours. Thus I value Shakespeare's picture of the transformation in old Lear more than I value his views about the divine right of kings, because I agree with Shakespeare that a man can be purified by suffering like Lear, but do not believe that kings (or any other rulers) have divine right in the sense required. When the great man's views do not seem to us erroneous we do not value them the less for having been shared with his contemporaries. Shakespeare's disdain for treachery and Christ's blessing on the poor were not alien to the outlook of their respective periods; but no one wishes to discredit them on that account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on the inheritance of victories of faith: not enough to build the sepulchres of those who were martyred by men unwilling, in their day of trial as we may be in our own, to hear new voices of a living God. Our duty is to see whether God is with us; whether we expect great things from Him; whether we do not practically place Him far off, forgetting that, if He is, He is about us, speaking to us words that have not been heard before, guiding us to paths on which earlier generations have not been able to enter. There is -- most terrible thought! -- a practical atheism, orthodox in language, reverent in bearing, which can enter a Christian church and charm the conscience to rest with shadowy traditions; an atheism which grows incessantly within us if we separate what cannot be separated with impunity, the secular from the divine, the past and the future from the present, earth from heaven, the things of Caesar from the things of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25656]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48493]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item></channel></rss>