<?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[You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/247]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and assess threats to our homeland, to match these threats to our vulnerabilities, and to ensure our safety and security,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart has turned to stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the Index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal, literary form, by ignoring its historical-grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bible's own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and that without labour, because he receiveth the light of understanding from above. The spirit which is pure, sincere and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon the sand   My name, the year, the day.    As onward from the sport I passed,     One lingering look behind I cast,      A wave came rolling high and fast,       And washed my lines away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to hold the asse by the bridle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49563]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49563</guid></item></channel></rss>