<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44573]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42324]]></link><description><![CDATA[kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one end pursues,   And only change the expiring flames renews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25727]]></link><description><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45941]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17155]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either a project is an open loop to close, as soon as possible, or it is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed    That any did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed by the market. Especially once victory is attained, which I think it would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35914]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60693]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For the gods see everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow,  From a fore-spent night of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow,  From a fore-spent night of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33878]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5534]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weening is not measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weening is not measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175</guid></item></channel></rss>