<?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 Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a lily cup, and now   Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,    In his wandering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's embarrassing. We have to go out there and erase that from our memories. The only way to do that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's embarrassing. We have to go out there and erase that from our memories. The only way to do that is to go out there and dominate this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30150]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4073]]></link><description><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point. Thus by denigrating prevailing beliefs and loyalties, the militant man of words unwittingly creates in the disillusioned masses a hunger for faith. For the majority of people cannot endure the barrenness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves. Thus, in spite of himself, the scoffing man of words becomes the precursor of a new faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19404]]></link><description><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38561]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to have an effect on the child. Children and parents have a more satisfying experience and fewer children need to be sedated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19215]]></link><description><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest   With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63822]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian of a faith like this,   Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,    And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song" So I keep singing a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item></channel></rss>