<?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[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58180]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28818]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49062]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strategically, both are good fits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strategically, both are good fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[head of international mafia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36708]]></link><description><![CDATA[head of international mafia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only shame is to have none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only shame is to have none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Seducers we, they say; but they lead men astray. Oh, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Seducers we, they say; but they lead men astray. Oh, what a noble seduction ours, that men should change from dissolute to sober living -- or towards it; to justice from injustice -- or tending that way; to wisdom from being foolish -- or becoming such; and from cowardice, meanness and timidity, show courage and fortitude, not least in this struggle for the sake of our religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we arebeing educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the public, appear more genuinely apologetic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47560]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11235]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25293]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough schedule from now on. We have to keep focused and working hard for our ultimate prize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough schedule from now on. We have to keep focused and working hard for our ultimate prize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2349]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or 4 films, so that also interested me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30229</guid></item></channel></rss>