<?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[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque il se defend.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many a friar,   Many a knight and many a squire,    With a great many more of lesser degree,--     In sooth a goodly company;      And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.       Never, I ween,        Was a prouder seen,         Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,          Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceivedepends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think.What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determineswhat we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716]]></link><description><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12292]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They don’t know they’re being funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet  The beauty of thy voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26678]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48979]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52487]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31008]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45380]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Rumania]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57202</guid></item></channel></rss>