<?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[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3304]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us are marginal. Gradually people will forget that we exist. And to make that happen more quickly, that completely senseless bill has been passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was growing up, records meant everything to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, records meant everything to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37370]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city just came right in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real wealth but the labor of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real wealth but the labor of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had the type of personality anyone could fall in love with. Nothing could ever get her down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33049]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had the type of personality anyone could fall in love with. Nothing could ever get her down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalition of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalition of this national will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day;  His voice was buried among trees,   Yet to be come at by the breeze:    He did not cease; but cooed--and cooed:     And somewhat pensively he wooed:      He sang of love, with quiet blending,       Slow to begin, and never ending;        Of serious faith, and inward glee;         That was the song,--the song for me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53647]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46918]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10332]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there:  Like a yawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there:  Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,   And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.    With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank     The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank,      And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine       When the eastern conduits ran with wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members of the Alameda County Police force stormed up the avenue toward them. The National Guard closed in from the other direction, and overhead, a helicopter [hovered over] the assembled group.] I thought, 'How did we come to this?' ... I witnessed what I thought was the hypocrisy of some of those protests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He?s been a good friend of mine for many, many years now. I?m proud to say I was a member ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37070]]></link><description><![CDATA[He?s been a good friend of mine for many, many years now. I?m proud to say I was a member of the council that made him chief, and he served exceptionally well in that capacity. He was faithful in service to this city for many years, and I wish him all the success in the world with his retirement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. Everyone understands the need to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12793</guid></item></channel></rss>