<?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[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing today an unmistakable confirmation that there is in the country the emergence of a new political culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing today an unmistakable confirmation that there is in the country the emergence of a new political culture. A sense that the legacy of the rule of the gun can be resisted is now taking root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We decided our goal was to shift from pure pursuit of market share to pursuit of profitability, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We decided our goal was to shift from pure pursuit of market share to pursuit of profitability,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45768]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands,  O'er every hill that under heaven expands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands,  O'er every hill that under heaven expands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so much in its claim to record the Word of God, as in its insistence that the Word of God is to be heard in a particular historical happening, in a particular locality -- and only there. To put it in a provocative manner: the Bible is theology. It is historical theology. It can reveal its meaning only to those who regard it as the Word of God, and are able to preserve a strict confidence in the universal significance of particular historical occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963]]></link><description><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62261]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by concessions which deprive it of its essence or which detract from our Saviour's title to be called The Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2685]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The international community needs to continue to help and you can certainly count on the United States to continue to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The international community needs to continue to help and you can certainly count on the United States to continue to help as well,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with the humane society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION – that load, we're only talking about one load – connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58589</guid></item></channel></rss>