<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Light - 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[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25061]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like our dawn, merely a sob of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash of it within the Tavern caught   Better than in the temple lost outright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25060]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. [It., Fra l' ombre un lampo solo  Basta al nocchier fugace   Che gia ritrova il polo,    Gia riconosce il mar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven;  But yet the light that led astray,   Was light from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven;  But yet the light that led astray,   Was light from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great believer makes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25053]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasted with excess of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasted with excess of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And God said: Let there be light: and there was light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25043]]></link><description><![CDATA[And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25045]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9805]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts   Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;    Himself his own dungeon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9805</guid></item></channel></rss>