<?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[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23120]]></link><description><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63363]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25380]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47432]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge-that myth ismore potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge-that myth ismore potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful thanfacts-that hope always triumphs over experience-that laughter is the onlycure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5210</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[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4630]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate Him in His works, whereby He renders Himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9432]]></link><description><![CDATA[However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48579]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is a good thing for the players,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?   Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;  So desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10500]]></link><description><![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;  So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,   Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10495</guid></item></channel></rss>