<?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[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48373]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is adverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9956]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a green tree in your heart, and maybe one day a bird will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a green tree in your heart, and maybe one day a bird will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have higher energy prices, which is another drag on consumer confidence and a 'tax' on consumer spending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls in the river,   A moment white--then melts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With no more sign of wisdom than a beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51726]]></link><description><![CDATA[With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send them into everlasting Coventry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send them into everlasting Coventry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worldwide adoption rate of large-screen HDTV sets by consumers has increased significantly over the last year. There is now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worldwide adoption rate of large-screen HDTV sets by consumers has increased significantly over the last year. There is now an enormous opportunity for consumer electronics manufacturers and Hollywood studios to supply consumers with high- definition media players and movies. As a result, we anticipate strong movie title and media player introductions in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54477]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These amendments open new horizons and give everyone the chance to participate in the political process and in the building ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36215]]></link><description><![CDATA[These amendments open new horizons and give everyone the chance to participate in the political process and in the building of the second Iraqi republic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908</guid></item></channel></rss>