<?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[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated nitrate levels were found in shallow wells and not in deep wells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42650]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were worn out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61313]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41538]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learned what lines you could and could not cross ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learned what lines you could and could not cross]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53323]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's wild speech confounds the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40857]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big challenge is inventory. Not a lot of people watch this, so how do you get a big enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big challenge is inventory. Not a lot of people watch this, so how do you get a big enough market that makes it worth your while?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2300]]></link><description><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46325</guid></item></channel></rss>