<?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[I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more   I hold my most malicious for and think not    At all a friend to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look forward to their contributions as student-athletes. I have faith in their ability to keep up the strong tradition of Wake Forest hockey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58752]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19565]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55333]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;  So rich she cannot hide from view,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;  So rich she cannot hide from view,   But covers all the bank with blue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9939]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient sages sought,   Physic and food in sour and sweet,    To take what passes in good part,     And keep the hiccups from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a 'No', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a 'No',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is contagious, pass it on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is contagious, pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is a petrified fountain of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is a petrified fountain of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644]]></link><description><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41308]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against Iran that Iran is under a military minded government and leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  What knowledge of Jesus Christ and His teaching lay behind the flash of enlightenment it is now impossible for us to say: but it is clear that the God whom Paul met was the "Father" of Jesus' own Gospel parables, the Shepherd who goes after the one sheep until He finds it. It was the God, in fact, whom the whole of the life of Jesus set forth, to the astonishment of those among whom He moved. Loving still, He brought God to men in the same unmistakable way. The divine love that through Jesus had found the public an Zacchaeus had now through the risen Christ found Paul the Pharisee. Hence forward the central facts of life for Paul were that while he was yet a sinner God had found and forgiven him, and that this was the work of Jesus Christ, in whose love the love of God had become plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A better present makes for a good past and future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A better present makes for a good past and future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this team. They have a lot of experience and their seasoned competitors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22388</guid></item></channel></rss>