<?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[The Ant and the ChrysalisAn Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food cameacross a Chrysalis that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the ChrysalisAn Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food cameacross a Chrysalis that was very near its time of change. TheChrysalis moved its tail, and thus attracted the attention of the Ant,who then saw for the first time that it was alive. Poor, pitiableanimal! cried the Ant disdainfully. What a sad fate is yours!While I can run hither and thither, at my pleasure, and, if I wish,ascend the tallest tree, you lie imprisoned here in your shell, withpower only to move a joint or two of your scaly tail. The Chrysalisheard all this, but did not try to make any reply. A few days after,when the Ant passed that way again, nothing but the shell remained.Wondering what had become of its contents, he felt himself suddenlyshaded and fanned by the gorgeous wings of a beautiful Butterfly.Behold in me, said the Butterfly, your much-pitied friend! Boastnow of your powers to run and climb as long as you can get me tolisten. So saying, the Butterfly rose in the air, and, borne alongand aloft on the summer breeze, was soon lost to the sight of theAnt forever.Appearances are deceptive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night is bright, with a starlit sky, I sit and think, as time passes by. Oh starry night, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night is bright, with a starlit sky, I sit and think, as time passes by. Oh starry night, with a moonlit sky, take me away, and tell me why. Give me a reason, for love's end, give me a reason, for why I lost a friend. I sit and think, all night l]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He won't lose his focus. He'll play another 10 years in the NHL. Game-sharp is just puck after puck (in practice). Since his last game, he's done two hours each day on ice. I think it was a good spot on the road. Sometimes, when you've stayed out a long time, it's better on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46025]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It speaks to the fact that today's Democratic Party is so out of the mainstream, it has moved so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It speaks to the fact that today's Democratic Party is so out of the mainstream, it has moved so far left, that a senator who just 12 years ago supported a then-centrist Democrat -- Bill Clinton -- is unable to support today's Democratic nominee. It also speaks to the strength of the president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're only immortal; For a limited time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock my arms out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight from junior college and just looking at me as a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we can play with anybody. Our chemistry is coming together real good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we can play with anybody. Our chemistry is coming together real good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  And in the calling, let him nothing call,   But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25407</guid></item></channel></rss>