<?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[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[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20253</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[I don't think it's a deal killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714]]></link><description><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  After all, Brethren, the whole end of Theology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  After all, Brethren, the whole end of Theology is love. It seems hard to realize that that is so, but so it is. If your theology does not make you more loving, it has not Christianized you and to that extent is not a Christian theology... All ecclesiasticism and all doctrinalizing are in order to form character, and the soul of character is love. Preach the truth in love, and for the development of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5483]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/381]]></link><description><![CDATA[An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order gave each thing view. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11975]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11975</guid></item></channel></rss>