<?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[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, in a variety of ways, particularly for the singers. It often goes from spoken word to singing without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31582]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, in a variety of ways, particularly for the singers. It often goes from spoken word to singing without a pause or transition. It takes a lot of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too early. We wanted to get the most out of every phase, like putting out a record on an independent label and playing small clubs, then doing bigger records and bigger tours. I think that just made us better prepared for this whole experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. `No, no, Jean. The t is silent as in Harlow.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours. -Swedish Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25317]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think chemistry will be a key ingredient. People have kind of forgotten about us, which is good. Hopefully, California ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think chemistry will be a key ingredient. People have kind of forgotten about us, which is good. Hopefully, California can keep the 'favorite' tag and we can fly under the radar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,   They do not point on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18375</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[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29241]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42299]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it should have been bigger because it was big hit. It moved the car, and the steering wheel. I had nothing at the end, and I'm sure Scott pushed it just as hard as me. This race was really tough, but it was for the championship and this was a win we really, really wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers of the interindividual process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31548]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15783]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46494]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605</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[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62117]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his quart and said,   "My work is done, I'll go to bed."    "My work is done!" retorted Joan,     "My work is done! Your constant tone,      But hapless woman ne'er can say       'My work is done' till judgment day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[making excuses for the Saudi government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28917]]></link><description><![CDATA[making excuses for the Saudi government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all night   Singeth a quiet tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item></channel></rss>