<?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[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement.Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement.Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positiveresult. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a theme park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like it was fixing to come in the back door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12628]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true before   Prove false again? Two hundred more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Thanks to Ayn Fox -Pablo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Thanks to Ayn Fox -Pablo Casals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a confident guy, but I think that everybody on this team is confident. If we don't make predictions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34531]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a confident guy, but I think that everybody on this team is confident. If we don't make predictions like him, it doesn't mean we don't have confidence. Everybody's different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good land, evill way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good land, evill way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59285]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic principle in the interpretation of the Bible is that one must first ask what a given Scripture was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7629]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic principle in the interpretation of the Bible is that one must first ask what a given Scripture was intended to mean to the people for whom it was originally written; only then is the interpreter free to ask what meaning it has for Christians today. Failure to ask this primary question and to investigate the historical setting of Scripture have prevented many Christians from coming to a correct understanding of some parts of the Bible. Nowhere is this more true than in respect to the last book in the Bible. Here, there has been a singular lack of appreciation for the historical background of the book; the book has been interpreted as if it were primarily written for the day in which the expositor lives (which is usually thought to be the end time), rather than in terms of what it meant to the first-century Christians of the Roman province of Asia for whom it was originally written. This has resulted in all sorts of grotesque and fantastic conclusions of which the author of the Revelation and its early recipients never would have dreamed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from purest snow   And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951   How often we look upon God as our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951   How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40485]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless  Are scattered at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless  Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4694]]></link><description><![CDATA[To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48148</guid></item></channel></rss>