<?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[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, wemust be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46700]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46793]]></link><description><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own,with all their diverse moons,bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;comets with their streaming tailsbent by pressure from our sun;the skyscape of our Milky Wayholding in its shimmering discan infinity of suns(or say a thousand billion);knowing there are holes of darknessgulping mass and even light,knowing that this galaxy of oursis one of multitudesin what we call the heavens,it troubles me. It troubles me.-President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,about the Revolutionary War).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54864]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the four seniors will be some of the top runners in the league. It's just a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the four seniors will be some of the top runners in the league. It's just a matter of whether our underclassmen can fill in those 5, 6 and 7 spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one delights more in revenge than a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50471]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one delights more in revenge than a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss them.   April knows her own, and is content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39564]]></link><description><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or even, in a more modern way of speech, a creative moral principle in itself. Paul does not, in fact, speak (when he is using the language strictly) of "justification by faith", but of "justification by grace through faith," or "on the grounds of faith." This is not mere verbal subtlety. It means that the "righteousness of God" becomes ours, not by the assertion of the individual will as such, but by the willingness to let God work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing:  But, och! it hardens a' within,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing:  But, och! it hardens a' within,   And petrifies the feeling!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53075]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65602]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,  Which they upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,  Which they upon the adverse faction want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50069]]></link><description><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item></channel></rss>