<?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[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52332]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12658]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,   And curs of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35525]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more thanthe intelligence quotient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of heart is to will one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of heart is to will one thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51721]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant himself afresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I think over the 15 days we were the better all-round outfit. It's a fantastic feeling to win the Dakar. I experienced many highs and lows in my skiing career, but this is so different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44195]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58341]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run!  Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,   And there followed some droppings of rain:    But now the fair traveller's come to the west,     His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;      He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,       And foretells a bright rising again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55332]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23224]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have every intention of relaunching cruise service from the great city of New Orleans as soon as the infrastructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have every intention of relaunching cruise service from the great city of New Orleans as soon as the infrastructure is in place so that our ships may contribute to the economic recovery of the area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With IPTV dramatically changing the entertainment market and helping to spur demand for broadband, IPTV products will be one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38334]]></link><description><![CDATA[With IPTV dramatically changing the entertainment market and helping to spur demand for broadband, IPTV products will be one of the hottest items on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor. The Broadband Services Forum is a terrific group to give Telecom NEXT attendees the critical information that will help network service providers with their network purchasing decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55716</guid></item></channel></rss>