<?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[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action conquers fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action conquers fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird would sing   Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,    Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;--     Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright      With tangled gossamer that fell by night,       Pearling his coronet of golden corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means to us Indian people, 'I am going to steal your land' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means to us Indian people, 'I am going to steal your land']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;       And as imagination bodies forth        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing          A local habitation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3286]]></link><description><![CDATA[You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope future studies will reveal any potential positive or negative effects. We plan to use several animal models to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope future studies will reveal any potential positive or negative effects. We plan to use several animal models to address these questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little neglect may breed great mischief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little neglect may breed great mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never plan the future by the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never plan the future by the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47120]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31902]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15475]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't be surprised when a crack in the iceAppears under your feet.You slip out of your depth and out of your mindWith your fear flowing out behind youAs you claw the thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62016</guid></item></channel></rss>