<?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[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness thatdrapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightfulconditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true tothem, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Whynot me? Why not now?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Whynot me? Why not now?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4861]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34283]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16624]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1726]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural Preservation Inc. was formed then and has a single purpose of maintaining the mural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is for people who can't face drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is for people who can't face drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past doesn't equal the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past doesn't equal the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pomegranat, Apple-Tree and BrambleThe pomegranate and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. When their strife was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pomegranat, Apple-Tree and BrambleThe pomegranate and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30420]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For us the Showdown is like having hundreds of talent scouts evaluating tens of thousands of artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. Rock my world with the basics.. And make me sing acoustics.. Life is short.. Feel it with music..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17647]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47178]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life onpurpose and focused on giving of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21613]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life onpurpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived intomy life, then I was prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item></channel></rss>