<?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[I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me  High mountains are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me  High mountains are a feeling, but the hum   Of human cities torture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain,  And resembles sorrow only   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain,  And resembles sorrow only   As the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy to purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How's it going, Super Sonic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30535]]></link><description><![CDATA[How's it going, Super Sonic?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7385]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice.  "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers."  "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?"  "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When found, make a note of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23340]]></link><description><![CDATA[When found, make a note of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20201]]></link><description><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education and our future. If we're not going to school, what's the point of all this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving opens the way for receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving opens the way for receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start out with basic things like 'milk,' 'more,' 'please' and 'eat' - things that are important to them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42657]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start out with basic things like 'milk,' 'more,' 'please' and 'eat' - things that are important to them and what they want. Then we just sign it as we say it to them and that allows them to put the word and the sign together. We've had really good success and we all get excited each time they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first.  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first.  [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49991]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12170</guid></item></channel></rss>