<?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[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for those who Grieve,    Too Short for those who Rejoice;     But for those who Love,      Time is not.   - Henry Jackson van Dyke,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, don't advertise where they are and who they are. The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12399]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48722]]></link><description><![CDATA[As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to optimize your health, begin noticing the frequency of any thoughts that support the idea of sickness as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64013]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to optimize your health, begin noticing the frequency of any thoughts that support the idea of sickness as something to be expected- then eliminate these thought frequencies from your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11216]]></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/11216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60846]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25727]]></link><description><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return  To plague the inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return  To plague the inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few things that I read that kick me in the gut. This is beyond my wildest guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few things that I read that kick me in the gut. This is beyond my wildest guess of how bad it actually is ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â how bad, how long and how nobody knew about it, ... I don't think Democrats or Republicans win on this. It basically makes people detest Congress even more and deters voter turnout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23518]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5619]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61582]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, they soon become Inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about these cells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847</guid></item></channel></rss>