<?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[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44903]]></link><description><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63932]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the protocols. So why you turning back? I'm still the same talent and watching as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They got beat pretty bad by Elk Creek last year. They knew they needed this win to set the tone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37337]]></link><description><![CDATA[They got beat pretty bad by Elk Creek last year. They knew they needed this win to set the tone for the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance   From those who know thee not!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31386]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate the sense of continuity, of steadiness that the queen gives by having been in that role for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?  Bravely! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?  Bravely! said he; for I of late have been   Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;    But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,     Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;      But when they should endure the bloody spur,       They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades        Sink in the trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; it unmans one quite,   Especially when life is rather new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22382]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in whichall goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those inwhich the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life isdesigned to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty anduncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. Wesurvive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want itany other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49512]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft  Ermattet endlich.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,  From Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8671]]></link><description><![CDATA["What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,  From Christian folds, the one selected race,   Of all professions, and in every place."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8671</guid></item></channel></rss>