<?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[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's always with us. That will never change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31424]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's always with us. That will never change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43501</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[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24148]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55831]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325]]></link><description><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illustrious predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illustrious predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it. The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Example is more powerful than precept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jove, thou regent of the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jove, thou regent of the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16333]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye on the needy world of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39668]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've got to tackle Lamont Jordan. He's a big running back, a bruiser with a lot of speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33924]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liars need to have good memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liars need to have good memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?  (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,   Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2757]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?  (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,   Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,    Which, as it seems, make thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39994]]></link><description><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud to help make China's rich musical history accessible for the first time to scholars, students and fans of Chinese culture around the globe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planets in their station list'ning stood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planets in their station list'ning stood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This total and entire conversion of the inner man, this absolute doing away of the old and acceptance of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7957]]></link><description><![CDATA[This total and entire conversion of the inner man, this absolute doing away of the old and acceptance of the new life, being in its nature a real breach and not a formal one, necessarily involved a corresponding outward breach with the old form of life. Of this breach Baptism was the sacrament. In Baptism the change was effected and realized in fact. Baptism was not a mere formal external act, a symbol of a spiritual fact which was already complete without it. A Spiritual conversion which was not also a conversion of life was no conversion at all, but a delusion... With the heart man believes, with the mouth he confesses; but a mouth which does not confess disproves the existence of a heart that believes. The soul cannot be God's and the life not God's at the same time. The soul can not be recreated and the life remain unchanged. The spiritual breach is proved and realized and completed in the outward breach. Where there is no outward change, it is safe to deny an inward change. Faith without Baptism and all that Baptism involved was consequently no part of St. Paul's teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which has cooperated fully with the court to end this case,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22975</guid></item></channel></rss>