<?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 eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder of the eagle were the less,   But he not less the eagle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because of her attitude and her intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46314]]></link><description><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3467]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to have two out of three if you want to compete in this conference. But, as far as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to have two out of three if you want to compete in this conference. But, as far as talent goes, we should've swept them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</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[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9960]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority has faced a serious financial crisis since the start of the month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority has faced a serious financial crisis since the start of the month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a scary moment. I'd gotten used to living in Arizona; it was home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a scary moment. I'd gotten used to living in Arizona; it was home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2922]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts -- a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs do not make a right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs do not make a right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61904</guid></item></channel></rss>