<?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[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of our agreement with our owners, the U.S. Playboy magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   There are doubtless many reasons for the degeneration of Christianity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   There are doubtless many reasons for the degeneration of Christianity into churchiness, and the narrowing of the Gospel for all mankind into a set of approved beliefs; but the chief cause must be the worship of an inadequate god -- a cramped and regulated god who is a 'good churchman' according to the formulas of the worshipper. For actual behaviour infallibly betrays the real object of the man's worship. All Christians, whatever their Church, would of course instantly repudiate the idea that their god was a super-example of their own denomination, and it is not suggested that the worship is conscious. Nevertheless, beneath the conscious critical level of the mind it is perfectly possible for the Anglo-Catholic, for example, to conceive God as particularly pleased with Anglo-Catholicism, doubtful about Evangelicalism, and frankly displeased by all forms of Nonconformity... The ultra-low Churchman on the other hand must admit, if he is honest, that the God whom he worships disapproves most strongly of vestments, incense, and candles on the altar. The tragedy of these examples -- which could be reproduced ad nauseam any day of the week -- is not difference of opinion, which will probably be with us till the Day of Judgment, but the outrageous folly and damnable sin of trying to regard God as the Party Leader of a particular point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns in the air, ... These are people who are thinking through problems in how to cause destruction, for a well-thought-through political strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt everwithout eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt everwithout eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude andfallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think ultimately you've got to see how they do in the playoffs. But last year's team was good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think ultimately you've got to see how they do in the playoffs. But last year's team was good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their company healthy. But from a human nature standpoint, it's a tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29407]]></link><description><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural cause   That admiration did not whoop at them;    But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in     Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;      And whatsoever cunning fiend it was       That wrought upon thee so preposterously        Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.   His coward lips did from their color fly,    And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world     Did lose his luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52210]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you to recant your statement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47525]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21450</guid></item></channel></rss>