<?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[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58295]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is the cause of the loss of truth. But if either is rejected, the other will not abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or even, in a more modern way of speech, a creative moral principle in itself. Paul does not, in fact, speak (when he is using the language strictly) of "justification by faith", but of "justification by grace through faith," or "on the grounds of faith." This is not mere verbal subtlety. It means that the "righteousness of God" becomes ours, not by the assertion of the individual will as such, but by the willingness to let God work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status have room for improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am declaring a state of emergency because of the clear threat to the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am declaring a state of emergency because of the clear threat to the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say she can beat them with a leg in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow,   That gave this gentle name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55738]]></link><description><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of falling weights that never fell,   Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,    Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,     And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;      And one betwixt the dark and light had seen       Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, we took the ugly wins and are glad to have survived, ... We still need to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29379]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, we took the ugly wins and are glad to have survived, ... We still need to improve our serving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to move the whole monument, it would have crumbled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42038]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to move the whole monument, it would have crumbled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were respected by the community. How is the community going to treat us now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were respected by the community. How is the community going to treat us now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12556]]></link><description><![CDATA[That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58988</guid></item></channel></rss>