<?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[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26731]]></link><description><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hungry right now. We're coming off a loss in a game we believe we should have won. We're hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hungry right now. We're coming off a loss in a game we believe we should have won. We're hungry for another win now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Suffer all, and conquer all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Suffer all, and conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9924]]></link><description><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,   In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,     Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;      And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14978]]></link><description><![CDATA[O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of horizontal stripes. They're always going to be a big fashion statement. It's all about wearing them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of horizontal stripes. They're always going to be a big fashion statement. It's all about wearing them for your body type.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36153]]></link><description><![CDATA[That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems with their size all weekend. The one key difference was their size because we got out-strength a little bit. I thought we had five to eight scoring chances thwarted by them because they we just stronger than us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted run their horse to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item></channel></rss>