<?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[The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on alldarknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on alldarknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41072]]></link><description><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45135]]></link><description><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness  To catch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness  To catch the nearest way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it to graduation (that) students see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings   Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts    Calls up the tuneful nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, the czar did not want us in the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42046]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, the czar did not want us in the schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing thing, but we're in it together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall  Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43173]]></link><description><![CDATA[That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall  Be crumbled into dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise in computer-related crimes and the technology used in these crimes is hard to keep up with. These classes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise in computer-related crimes and the technology used in these crimes is hard to keep up with. These classes help us with the mechanics; they're like road maps on computer forensics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40911</guid></item><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></channel></rss>