<?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[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19863]]></link><description><![CDATA[So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest forget   That he himself is not the host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did not have to kill him. They had no right shooting at that car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did not have to kill him. They had no right shooting at that car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2785]]></link><description><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size,   Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Our business is to love what God would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Our business is to love what God would have us do. He wills our vocation as it is: let us love that, and not trifle away our time in hankering after other people's vocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38343]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get back into the game in the third quarter and we turned the ball over. But I give Hillcrest a lot of credit they're a good team and have a lot of good players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade,   Then let example be obey'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to reinspire him from the gates   That open still toward sunrise on the vault    High-domed of morning.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are people out there that are going to pick up on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16770]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe;   The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.   - edited by John Payne Collier,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same people are generally quite happy to go into business life, which is in its way just as "dirty". If the dubious practices and moral compromises of every walk of life were dissected and made known with the glare of publicity which shines on the activities of politicians, then those who like to think that they can keep their hands clean would have very few professions to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576]]></link><description><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22508</guid></item></channel></rss>