<?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[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2519]]></link><description><![CDATA[In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls  Upon the Sovereign One's immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls  Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head   Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,    Olympus trembled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   As make the angels weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option program that will enable them to share in the growth potential of the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." The hungry sheep, that crave the living Bread. Grow few, and lean, and feeble as can be, When fed not Gospel, but philosophy; Not Love's eternal story, no, not this, But apt allusion, keen analysis. Discourse well framed -- forgot as soon as heard -- Man's thin dilution of the living Word. O Preacher, leave the rhetorician's arts; Preach Christ, the Food of hungry human hearts; Hold fast to science, history, or creed, But preach the Answer to our human need, That in this place, at least, it may be said No hungry sheep looks up and is not fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I wear   On brows bald since my thirty years.    Ye veils that deck my loved one rare,     Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh.      Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!       And I, so plain a man am I!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18766]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall think it a most plenteous crop   To glean the broken ears after the man    That the main harvest reaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15231]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33667]]></link><description><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1695]]></link><description><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31909</guid></item></channel></rss>