<?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[Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen to you, understand what you are saying, and support you, will determine whether you win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existence. He is the Lord of all kinds of beings--spiritual being, natural being, physical being. Therefore, when we rightly worship Him we encompass all being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature of his system. He taught that God, as the great feudal superior of the universe, allotted to all earthly authorities their rule in fief as subject to Himself. The priesthood was not an office of dominion, but of service, and its prerogatives ceased when service was not rendered. Dominion was not granted to one person as God's Vicar on earth, but the King was as much God's Vicar as the Pope; nay, every Christian held his rights immediately of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56080]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11230]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/984]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64649]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</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[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,   Rising and cawing at the gun's report,    Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;     So at his sight away his fellows fly,      And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;       He murder cries and help from Athens calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a fight saves a relationship, where silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart, so that you won't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63190</guid></item></channel></rss>