<?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[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tempt not a desperate man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tempt not a desperate man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss  A jewel in the mirror). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss  A jewel in the mirror).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God -- the knowledge which is eternal life -- and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character, and of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. But what is Repentance? Not the last and noblest and most refined achievement of the righteousness of men in the service of God, but the first elemental act of the righteousness of God in the service of men; the work that God has written in their hearts and which, because it is from God and not from men, occasions joy in heaven; that looking forward to God, and to Him only, which is recognized only by God and by God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243]]></link><description><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33209]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to agree with it. But what Senator Frist has had to say is weighty, and I think may bring us all together on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50903]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoemaker, stick to your last. [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoemaker, stick to your last. [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one is tough to accept. But the kids never quit. The kids hung in there and we battled back-and-forth, back-and-forth. It was a wild high school baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been tremendous. Take away the scoring ability and what (Ingles) does on the floor. He brings experience. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39671]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been tremendous. Take away the scoring ability and what (Ingles) does on the floor. He brings experience. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ He's helped show a young and inexperienced team the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has a great deal of hockey experience and success on his resume, and he will help us immensely in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33975]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has a great deal of hockey experience and success on his resume, and he will help us immensely in our evaluation of pro prospects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item></channel></rss>