<?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 thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451]]></link><description><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce through me as onward they go.    They sail along, and a ringing     Sweet melody rises on high;      And when the swans begin singing,       They presently must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird  In his good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird  In his good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34588]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens ... our youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50804]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20431]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7074]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart is in this method of prayer; never beginning to pray, till you first see how matters stand with you; asking your heart what it wants, and having nothing in your prayers, but what the known state of your heart puts you upon demanding, saying, or offering, unto God. A quarter of an hour of this prayer, brings you out of your closet a new man; your heart feels the good of it; and every return of such a prayer, gives new life and growth to all your virtues, with more certainty, than the dew refreshes the herbs of the field: whereas, overlooking this true prayer of your own heart, and only at certain times taking a prayer that you find in a book, you have nothing to wonder at, if you are every day praying, and yet every day sinking further and further under all your infirmities. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity andfascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity andfascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30128</guid></item></channel></rss>