<?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[Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:   "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces:  And fallen into the dusty crypt   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51720]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces:  And fallen into the dusty crypt   Of darken'd forms and faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,  And wings it with sublime desires,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,  And wings it with sublime desires,   And fits it to bespeak the Deity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35759]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve or faint;   "His life is Christ, his death is gain."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59899]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a has-been. I am a will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we are looking for is what is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are looking for is what is looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a lot of eyes in Belfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27425]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. (Beatrice:) No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant,  A zealous high-churchman was I,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54489]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant,  A zealous high-churchman was I,   And so I got preferment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will keep looking for problems now, so that when we finish this plant it will be safe and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will keep looking for problems now, so that when we finish this plant it will be safe and it will operate as designed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts -- apply for compensation from the French authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is, in fact, more important for us to know what God did to Israel and to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7609]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to the non-Christian mind that this is an immoral or at least unmoral doctrine. Paul appears to be saying that a man is justified before God, not by his goodness or badness, not by his good deeds or bad deeds, but by believing in a certain doctrine of Atonement. Of course, when we come to examine the matter more closely, we can see that there is nothing unmoral in this teaching at all. For if "faith" means using a God-given faculty to apprehend the unseen divine order, and means, moreover, involving oneself in that order by personal commitment, we can at once see how different that is from merely accepting a certain view of Christian redemption... That which man in every religion, every century, every country, was powerless to affect, God has achieved by the devastating humility of His action and suffering in Jesus Christ. Now, accepting such an action as a fait accompli is only possible by this perceptive faculty of "faith". It requires not merely intellectual assent but a shifting of personal trust from the achievements of the self to the completely undeserved action of God. To accept this teaching by mind and heart does, indeed, require a metanoia ["transformation"], a revolution in the outlook of both heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality of our communities reflects that in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. They [legislators] don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality of our communities reflects that in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. They [legislators] don't know what's happening in Buffalo or Rochester or Binghamton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10226]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/597</guid></item></channel></rss>