<?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[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, give him time and scope,   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,    Confound themselves with working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  Away from the world that slaves for money--   Come, journey the way with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30078]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40620]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good ... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." ... Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity... St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding up the windows and collecting food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And the temples of his gods?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound and pristine health,   I would applaud thee to the very echo,    That should applaud you again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12270]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices of those early Christians; but what struck them was the immensity of their inheritance in Christ. Take that one phrase (surely the most daring that the mind of man ever conceived), "We are the heirs of God." That is what they felt about it, that not God Himself could have a fuller life than theirs, and that even He would share all that He had with them! Tremendous words that stagger through their sheer audacity! And yet, here we are, whispering about the steepness of the way, the soreness of the self-denial, the heaviness of the cross, whining and puling, giving to those outside the utterly grotesque impression that religion is a gloomy kind of thing, a dim, monastic twilight where we sit and shiver miserably, out of the sunshine that God made for us, and meant us to enjoy -- that it is all a doing that nobody would naturally choose, and refraining from what everyone would naturally take: a species of insurance money grudgingly doled out lest some worse thing come upon us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  Now since our eternal state is as certainly ours, as our present state; since we are as certainly to live for ever, as we now live at all; it is plain, that we cannot judge of the value of any particular time, as to us, but by comparing it to that eternal duration, for which we are created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did a really good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40327]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did a really good job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain,  And builded with roofs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20526]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain,  And builded with roofs of gold   My beautiful castles in Spain!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a strategic opportunity that was too good to miss. Cisco was very natural fit for us. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40012]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a strategic opportunity that was too good to miss. Cisco was very natural fit for us. I don't think there's an RFID company in the world that would have passed on this opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend in need is a friend indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend in need is a friend indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66149]]></link><description><![CDATA[One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25543</guid></item></channel></rss>