<?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[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59052]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at someone's funeral. I told her when I die, she better sing at mine. She's really good - she'll move you to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. Thisis simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what hepretends to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55666]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40470]]></link><description><![CDATA[An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61586]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; as long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47045]]></link><description><![CDATA[If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9438]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanctions will be related to a region's general allocation funds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanctions will be related to a region's general allocation funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever won silver. We came through there, and we think we can do it again at the Olympics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49719</guid></item></channel></rss>