<?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 moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,   For asses might upon thee feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.   My own hope is, a sun will pierce    The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;     That, after Last, returns the First,      Though a wide compass round be fetched;       That what began best, can't end worst,        Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7477]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. It is so with Christ. In this world our contact with Him is shadowy, for we can only see through a glass darkly. It is spasmodic, for we are poor creatures and cannot live always on the heights. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every pretense that it does not is a deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34435]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish could be removed from the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain hasn't played for a while, I hope the players can put on a good display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   To worship effectively is to enable men to become free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   To worship effectively is to enable men to become free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1017]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by  When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by  When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14144]]></link><description><![CDATA[All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38350]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We struggled on serving, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We struggled on serving,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50387]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is pain in prohibition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is pain in prohibition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, but I thought that to have a public event that night would be a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;  And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!   We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;  And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!   We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams,    By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15378]]></link><description><![CDATA[But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/958</guid></item></channel></rss>