<?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[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to see out opportunities to use (our talents) to help other people, ... The Miss OSU title will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to see out opportunities to use (our talents) to help other people, ... The Miss OSU title will get me in places that maybe being a student athlete won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ancient faith: what we needis here. And we pray, notfor new earth or heaven, but to bequiet in heart, and in eye,clear. What we need is here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56354</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[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-eight-three in the summer, meaning in non-ideal conditions? Formidable, ... Valentino makes me dream and I say he has nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-eight-three in the summer, meaning in non-ideal conditions? Formidable, ... Valentino makes me dream and I say he has nothing to lose. Go ahead and try it. Everyone likes him, from the Italians to the Japanese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59835]]></link><description><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike such synecdoches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   Where would you be if God took away all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   Where would you be if God took away all your Christian work? Too often it is our Christian work that is worshiped and not God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43701]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabicto the Arabs.spoken on the Terry Gross Show.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace groupPeace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is clear yet ... the man cannot remain in these conditions ... his health is deteriorating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is clear yet ... the man cannot remain in these conditions ... his health is deteriorating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Goatherd and the Wild GoatsA goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Goatherd and the Wild GoatsA goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night. The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold. He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own. When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd. One of them, turning about, said to him: That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves. Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8229]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51354]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45670]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,   Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, but I feel pretty bad about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52783]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26354</guid></item></channel></rss>