<?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[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   The noisy wheel was still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God in his head; that his images are solid metaphors -- what we call symbols. The skeptical Greek philosopher may remind us that, after all, the image of Athena is only a symbol, only a means of fixing one's rambling thoughts upon the spirit that is Athena. Yet the idolater will persist in losing sight of the forest for the trees, and the god for the image. The gold and ivory statue of Athena becomes holy in itself, an answerer of prayer, a mysterious source of power, a material object somehow different from other objects. The crucifix, the plaster image, the saint's relic or miraculous medal or cheaply and illegibly printed Bible may become themselves things considered holy and magical, able to stop a bullet. Worse yet, the god confined in an image is a shrunken and powerless god. Because you have limited your concept of God to a man shape on a carved crucifix, you may be in danger of inferring that you are free to outrage the man shapes walking and breathing around you. Because you worship the god in a specially baked wafer and a specially designed chalice, you may forget to worship the God of all bread and all wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bad excuse, than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bad excuse, than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18435]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39501]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what they really are, which is ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19937]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speme e Fortune, addio; che' in porto entrai. Schernite gli altri; ch'io vi spregio omai. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speme e Fortune, addio; che' in porto entrai. Schernite gli altri; ch'io vi spregio omai.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. And you had to succeed no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63974]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47043]]></link><description><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47043</guid></item></channel></rss>