<?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 remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetic surgery and poker are popular right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetic surgery and poker are popular right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We change, whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made not pleasures for the rich alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50231]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made not pleasures for the rich alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is death without the consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is death without the consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161]]></link><description><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish, earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the educated are free. -Epictetus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16985]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not to say that nuts and bolts contractors are at a disadvantage, ... But if you look at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32408]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not to say that nuts and bolts contractors are at a disadvantage, ... But if you look at long-term trends, there will need to be more refurbishing of a lot of equipment so I've been increasingly looking towards tech-slanted defense contractors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12673]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the college towns that we operate in in the Lower 48 do this every year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the college towns that we operate in in the Lower 48 do this every year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58268]]></link><description><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and so full of pain!   Forever and forever shalt thou be    To some the gravestone of a dead delight,     To some the landmark of a new domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[William Eggleston in the Real World ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42428]]></link><description><![CDATA[William Eggleston in the Real World]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34607]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26783</guid></item></channel></rss>