<?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[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie  A little nearer Spenser, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie  A little nearer Spenser, to make room   For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46201]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for positions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35359]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for positions. We provided them opportunities down there, and in the meantime, opened up sale territories for people in this area. More employment to local area was created as a result of promoting people here to the southern plant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what we are looking for from everyone. Constant improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42128]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what we are looking for from everyone. Constant improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11679]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right at the top. There was just something about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on which the early apologists laid so much weight, was all ex post facto. No one beforehand could have conjectured a tenth of it. But without the background of Jewish prophet and psalmist, of Jewish national history, it would be hard to understand Jesus. If prophet and historian and legislator did not in type and enigma foretell in detail the story of his life, he was none the less their heir. None the less was he their heir in that he was not in bondage to his inheritance, but... a "minister not of the letter but of the spirit", and the whole of his activity lay "in newness of spirit". Without conjecturing what he might have been on another soil or of another stock--a type of guesswork always futile in history--we have to recognize the... immense spiritual wealth that lay ready to his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;  For he, by geometric scale,   Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;  For he, by geometric scale,   Could take the size of pots of ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34077]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14768]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22435]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodiesis the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals fromwithin is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item></channel></rss>