<?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[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53293]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will work unless you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will work unless you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62124]]></link><description><![CDATA[And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;  But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,   Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64320]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2315]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43460]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;  You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule   Should ever be kept at the front;--    Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head     And kick every worriment out of the bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to pour services into the home and offer everything we can to make sure a family can stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to pour services into the home and offer everything we can to make sure a family can stay together,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542</guid></item></channel></rss>