<?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[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit -- such a Confession, such a Worship, as the past contains only a dim shadow of -- we have a right to look for. It may come when we least expect it; it will probably come after a period of darkness, fierce contention, utter disbelief. But the confession will only be united when we cease to confound our feeble expressions of trust and affiance, our praises and adorations, with Him to whom they rise, from whom they proceed; when we are brought to nothingness, that He may be shown to be all in all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think also what people really should try to keep in mind is, when a hit and run occurs, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think also what people really should try to keep in mind is, when a hit and run occurs, there is a lack of closure on an incident like this, people don't really have a sense of what happened and what lead to this - from a justice standpoint or from a personal standpoint- we're trying to help the family to try and understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a gentle command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22548]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a gentle command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are they very dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1393</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[The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a focal point for us that our scores are going up -- we're closing that gap, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a focal point for us that our scores are going up -- we're closing that gap,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of education is respecting the pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of education is respecting the pupil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid to make mistakes and sat back and watched things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the trustee of prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the trustee of prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept of community involvement is a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept of community involvement is a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item></channel></rss>