<?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[All authority belongs to the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3481]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to give me medical assistance but the doctors told me unless I talk to the interrogators, they will not give me help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higherand greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by aforce and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confidentand free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves tobe taken over by our unquestioning self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21101]]></link><description><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. Rrelating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a lovers quarrel with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a lovers quarrel with the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important as this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-time their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show;  Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen;   But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   Especially the ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60143]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27686]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say Malala\'s voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala\'s voice reaching the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66663]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say Malala\'s voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala\'s voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala\'s voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women\'s rights, and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They see themselves as leaders. They also found out you can't have a global city and a closed one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54249]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20799]]></link><description><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12472]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20046]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and swung    In the palpitating air,     Drowsed with odors strange and rare.      And, with whispered laughter, slipped away       And let him hanging there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark as pitch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark as pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item></channel></rss>