<?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[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust, but verify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust, but verify.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing such statements and Gandhi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34852]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing such statements and Gandhi must take strong notice of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss   Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58305</guid></item><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[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nobody "out there." It's all in here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nobody "out there." It's all in here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29752]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2170]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24596]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was totally unprecedented - a live interchange with no questions given in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38946]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was totally unprecedented - a live interchange with no questions given in advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're in a position we were in, you want to get it done sooner than later. This is a game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30789]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in a position we were in, you want to get it done sooner than later. This is a game where their sights are clearly to win, as it was for Guatemala the last time we were in Guatemala. It will be interesting to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are having problems with reliability and the problem is that it's not impossible to fake a statement of cash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are having problems with reliability and the problem is that it's not impossible to fake a statement of cash flows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famed For every branch of every science known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famed For every branch of every science known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65528</guid></item></channel></rss>