<?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[A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set outto accomplish it. He should make this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set outto accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point ofhis thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be aworldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whicheverit is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object whichhe has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, andshould devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts towander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is theroyal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if hefails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily mustuntil weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be themeasure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point forfuture power and triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, came to the shelter and offered me a way out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10315]]></link><description><![CDATA[True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive results, to a realistic, pragmatic approach with interesting results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,  Which they upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,  Which they upon the adverse faction want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead the residents of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead the residents of the 19th District about who I am and the values that I hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19963]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,   A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.    For happy hours the Rose will idly blow--     The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not closing the lower Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not closing the lower Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30144]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12067]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12067</guid></item></channel></rss>