<?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[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God,   Who has called us to serve You, In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God,   Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the world's affairs,   When we stumble, hold us; When we fall, lift us up;   When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us; When we turn from what is good, turn us back;   And bring us at last to Your glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [tax protestors] can pack whatever chambers they want, and they can scream and rant all they want. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30904]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [tax protestors] can pack whatever chambers they want, and they can scream and rant all they want. This is one vote they're never going to get on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a game like this, you want to dominate the boards, you want to limit your turnovers and you want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33393]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a game like this, you want to dominate the boards, you want to limit your turnovers and you want to make good shot selections. We talked about that before the game and we talked about it yesterday at practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,  Gloves as sweet as damask roses,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow,  Gloves as sweet as damask roses,   Masks for faces and for noses,    Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,     Perfume for a lady's chamber,      Golden quoifs and stomachers       For my lads to give their dears,        Pins and poking-sticks of steel,         What maids lack from head to heel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love...   The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60354]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61055]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the president can stop the political rhetoric on both sides, we will not get to conference committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the president can stop the political rhetoric on both sides, we will not get to conference committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear   The warble was low, and full and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead is rethinking its view as to the near-term motivation of the Fed and the impact of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we must.. quote whenver we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we must.. quote whenver we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52878</guid></item></channel></rss>