<?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[Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52332]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12406]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61973]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23281]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't ask, you don't get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't ask, you don't get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is truly great who hath a great charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5703]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is truly great who hath a great charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in that niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boll is playing hurt right now, but I need her on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boll is playing hurt right now, but I need her on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival in Los Angeles, and one girl told me, 'This movie makes me feel like I can do anything I want.' It shows that even if you don't have the resources, you can use your own will to change things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger dollar-buying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56303</guid></item></channel></rss>