<?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[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf   Came I to crouch, as I conceive.    Dame Nature doubtless has designed     A man the monarch of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're living an unhappy life and you probably think this is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time Bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1836]]></link><description><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are out to prove something to us by the force of their rational arguments. But it is the testimony, or testament, of a group of witnesses... who are bent on simply reporting to us the experience of a love that overtook them and overwhelmed them, a peace that passed all their understanding, and a peace that they in turn would pass on to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5075]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to see more referendums. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to see more referendums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14112]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14112</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[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would call this the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41272]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would call this the start of the healing process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How can you go to Phoenix and have a storm? Usually, you have to take tents to try and keep from burning up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17445]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do. They're really making an effort in this campaign to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42443]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do. They're really making an effort in this campaign to reach out to all groups in society, and really show that they're both parties of diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51225]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of punches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47160]]></link><description><![CDATA["What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it because we love it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it because we love it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580</guid></item></channel></rss>