<?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[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31160]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25792]]></link><description><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case was brought by his family to justice and is handled by the judiciary, which is independent. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40045]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case was brought by his family to justice and is handled by the judiciary, which is independent. But the government of Afghanistan is still committed to the respect of human rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13949]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The truth is neither mine nor his nor another's; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The truth is neither mine nor his nor another's; but belongs to us all whom Thou callest to partake of it, warning us terribly, not to account it private to ourselves, lest we be deprived of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--   Fill all the Glasses there; for why    Should every Creature Drink but I?     Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. Which is at the first sign of success they jump up to what they think is a greener pasture -- a big-time job somewhere else. But she's been patient enough to kind of build something that's going to be long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13857]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10216]]></link><description><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7036]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are prone to take and make to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust -- as from this or that, or any other man or men -- but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein by his own Spirit in the holy word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26446]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever "idea" there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs never bite me. Just humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs never bite me. Just humans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the time they are in high school, it turns up as a serious injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage equality changed life for people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage equality changed life for people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can say we have the cake and now we're just missing the cherry on top. We're closer (to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can say we have the cake and now we're just missing the cherry on top. We're closer (to the final) than PSV, but we'll have to prepare very well for the return leg, seeing how tough they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill  That quivers through thy piercing notes   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill  That quivers through thy piercing notes   So petulant and shrill.    I think there is a knot of you     Beneath the hollow tree,      A knot of spinster Katydids,--       Do Katydids drink tea?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have to go out of state, the cost of making that trip will be prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31441</guid></item></channel></rss>