<?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[Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere else, ... Eventually, we are going to lose that population.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51613]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every Art it is good to have a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every Art it is good to have a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16491]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is an ape with possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is an ape with possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pool) is a fun, competitive sport that anyone can compete in. It's easy to learn stuff, and most players are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38527]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pool) is a fun, competitive sport that anyone can compete in. It's easy to learn stuff, and most players are willing to teach you anything they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something really bad the first time, and no one will ever think of asking you again ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something really bad the first time, and no one will ever think of asking you again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19225]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is its own place, and in itself can make aHeav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53582]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from proof-of-concept to prototyping and early manufacturing stages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38038]]></link><description><![CDATA[We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry the Fed may be forced to ease again before it begins hiking rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61886</guid></item></channel></rss>