<?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[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[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hung around that third quarter, but the fourth quarter, our game plan went out the window. We settled for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hung around that third quarter, but the fourth quarter, our game plan went out the window. We settled for easy shots outside and we only got one chance. Faith did a great job on the boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the middle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38146]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our pride and joy, right here. There's Butter Crunch (lettuce) on the right, spinach in the middle and the remains of the Black-Seeded Simpson (leaf lettuce) on the left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk   The hopes of all men and of every nation;    Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk     Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:      But to return,--Get very drunk; and when       You wake with headache, you shall see what then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59190]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from having the ball on the half-yard line. We could have easily scored 28-21 points in that game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63640]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos was everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43355]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66860]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;  On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429]]></link><description><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23328]]></link><description><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,   And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59106</guid></item></channel></rss>