<?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[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18033]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought   As also in birth and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53602]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36185]]></link><description><![CDATA[French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's commitment to bring justice to all those who plot murder and orchestrate terror, no matter how long they run or how far they flee,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to livefor thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;   Run the rapid and leap the fall,    Split at the rock, and together again     Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,      And flee from folly on every side       With a lover's pain to attain the plain,        Far from the hills of Habersham,         Far from the valleys of Hall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42043]]></link><description><![CDATA[His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your own star! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your own star!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're quick learners. The younger ones seem to learn best through songs and games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter -- all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no "cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live are those who fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live are those who fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could be interpreted as offensive for one group or another is completely inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29417</guid></item></channel></rss>