<?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[To fish in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61768]]></link><description><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalists prize independence - not teamwork, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalists prize independence - not teamwork,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9538]]></link><description><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52278]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8095]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter! The faith that limits itself to the promises of God seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child -- good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith. Those who rest in such a faith would feel yet more comfortable if they had God's bond instead of His word, which they regard not as the outcome of His character but as a pledge of His honour. They try to believe in the truth of His word, but the truth of His Being they understand not. In His oath they persuade themselves that they put confidence: in himself they do not believe, for they know Him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best ways to remember that day and all the innocent lives that were lost is to recognize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39888]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to remember that day and all the innocent lives that were lost is to recognize that we're still a community and we need to work together, get along together, stand on one another's shoulders, help and encourage each other. It's the silent ways of supporting people as well as the very loud ways that can be beneficial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,  Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54321]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,  Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,--   Wave succeeding wave, they go    A various journey to the deep,     Like human life to endless sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64715]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a 'Rocky'-type story about a girl from the inner city who had the ability, talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a 'Rocky'-type story about a girl from the inner city who had the ability, talent and intelligence to do this but didn't have the support or the resources or the belief this was something that was for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own efforts or contriving, but must be received as the gift of God's Spirit, working in and among us. The work of the group is to keep open the channels of receptiveness through study, discipline, prayer, and self-offering. When a group learns to live in this faith, it can keep the lines of endeavor tentative and sensitive to new headings and possibilities, on the one hand; and, on the other, move forward resolutely under such light as is now given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but simply God Himself. He has taken the initiative from the beginning, and has built our prayers into the structure of the universe. He then asks us to present these requests to Him that He may show His gracious hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57255]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55764]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item></channel></rss>