<?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[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845]]></link><description><![CDATA[By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave you to be lost in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55647]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see, quoth he, how the world wags. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen him use it well, and I think it's something I can definitely use, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen him use it well, and I think it's something I can definitely use,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third -- the greatest wonder of all -- to find myself there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pump you up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pump you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will please though ten times repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will please though ten times repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To de-gnome a garden, grab the gnome by the ankles and swing it around your head, and then throw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept has been around for a long time, but it's just crept its way into mainstream employment benefits in the last few decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1250]]></link><description><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4515]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise   As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand:    A thousand years their cloudy wings expand     Around me, and a dying Glory smiles      O'er the far times, when many a subject land       Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines,        Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her tears will pierce into a marble heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49287</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[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31087]]></link><description><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be here today, because a couple years ago it wasn't a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52932]]></link><description><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away,   Then take her by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. For that same size unit it's now $1,500 per month. You take a $10-an-hour worker, pretty much all of their wages for the year would only cover rent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto you to fill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32028]]></link><description><![CDATA[At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played three minutes of good basketball. I tried to do that so they (the starters) could see that patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15035]]></link><description><![CDATA[By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item></channel></rss>