<?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 struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but more his practice wrought;   (A living sermon of the truths he taught:)    For this by rules severe his life he squar'd:     That all might see the doctrines which they heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody deserves forgiveness and second chances, but not for the same mistake... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody deserves forgiveness and second chances, but not for the same mistake...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;  Omitted, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;  Omitted, all the voyage of their life   Is bound in shallows and in miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock has decided to take time into its own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock has decided to take time into its own hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60266]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64906]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1675]]></link><description><![CDATA[By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider them to be part of the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider them to be part of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the emnity o' th' air,  To be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44065]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the emnity o' th' air,  To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,   Necessity's sharp pinch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37812]]></link><description><![CDATA[This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here since day 1. We will make sure that he is successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52402</guid></item></channel></rss>