<?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've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home". Such a faith will not lead to presumption. The man who can pray such a prayer will know better than another that God is not mocked; that He is not a man that He should repent; that tears and entreaties will not work on Him to the breach of one of His laws; that for God to give a man, because he asked for it, that which was not in harmony with His laws of truth and right, would be to damn him -- to cast him into the outer darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were too nervous,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bullet has its billet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bullet has its billet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/994]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13969]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26290]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to her--above her fan   She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28710]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27038]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38577]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;  And ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23820]]></link><description><![CDATA[First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;  And ever since it grew more clean and white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to be happy is to love to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55821]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -Albert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy as in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45937</guid></item></channel></rss>