<?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[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all night   Singeth a quiet tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the peace process should soon be back on track, hopefully with everyone involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the peace process should soon be back on track, hopefully with everyone involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is the fool's name for Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is the fool's name for Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58181]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let it slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, that Jesus was divine, or even that without being divine he was unique, then we must, as a matter of logic, discard any attempt to discredit the Gospel accounts on the ground that they record miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6265]]></link><description><![CDATA[By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, the Saviour, we renounce all mysticism. For mysticism in the strict sense exists only where one soars above the sphere of history, and where in place of the Mediator and the historical event are put the inner word of God, the inner motions of the soul, in order to reach immediacy between soul and God, and, in the end, the identity of both. But while it is necessary to safeguard the Christian message of the Holy Spirit from the mystical misunderstanding by calling attention to its relation to Jesus Christ, it is necessary on the other hand to safeguard the message of Jesus Christ and His work from the orthodox and rationalist misunderstanding by emphasizing that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That says a lot about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48699]]></link><description><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618]]></link><description><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;   Glittering in golden coats like images;    As full of spirit as the month of May     And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;      Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55422]]></link><description><![CDATA[As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55422</guid></item></channel></rss>