<?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[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?  Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,   If he kneel not before the same altar with me?    From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,     To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?      No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try       Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49268]]></link><description><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4344]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew   Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthy expansion is expected to continue drawing on strong internal dynamics, particularly, growth in the PRC and structural improvements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthy expansion is expected to continue drawing on strong internal dynamics, particularly, growth in the PRC and structural improvements in South Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to put it out of your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to put it out of your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive thyself little, and others much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive thyself little, and others much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mocking the air with colours idly spread. -King John. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mocking the air with colours idly spread. -King John. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60087]]></link><description><![CDATA[All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3953]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new level of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or the right not to be blown up on the way to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838]]></link><description><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the barrel on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are injured and hurt emotionally,Not so much by other peopleor what they say and don't say,But by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are injured and hurt emotionally,Not so much by other peopleor what they say and don't say,But by our own attitudeand our own response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a moron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a moron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the concrete is just basically disintegrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item></channel></rss>