<?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[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,   And, consecrated by the heaven within it,    The sky-blue pool a font.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1965]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/278]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62662]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D.C., where there are so many humanities resources ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D.C., where there are so many humanities resources and so many people with great ideas . . . this humanities council should be in the business of supporting and encouraging those ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling you how far you can go or what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   Your transporting chords ring out.    Every leaf in every nook,     Every wave in every brook,      Chanting with a solemn voice       Minds us of our better choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44173]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33919]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ad lib a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51499]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell where my own shoe pinches me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34339]]></link><description><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead he taught his followers to respond with mercy and best behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.  So that no wonder waits him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13055]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44150</guid></item></channel></rss>