<?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[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19320]]></link><description><![CDATA[History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are the answers we cannot bear to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is committed to eradicating this evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586]]></link><description><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48412]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625]]></link><description><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the third quarter, analysts are bringing their estimates down again, but not by as much as normal. Analysts have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the third quarter, analysts are bringing their estimates down again, but not by as much as normal. Analysts have caught on and adjusted their models accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49408</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[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552]]></link><description><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56426]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61670]]></link><description><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17016]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27968]]></link><description><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,  Auri ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,  Auri sacra fames?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52677]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man was to be ruled. When, unarmed and defenseless, He said to the Roman power, "My Kingdom is not of this world," He spoke the word of inauguration. Over the kingdom of the elemental forces, over the kingdom of the animal, over the kingdom of the intellect, He beheld rising, with Himself as prophet and embodiment, that kingdom of the spiritual whose forces should be those of purity and sacrifice, love and trust, obedience and service. It is the last of the kingdoms because it is the highest; it will be the most enduring for there is nothing that can take its place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2492]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in the short-term it is certainly going to take time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item></channel></rss>