<?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[Man is to man a god or a wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15020]]></link><description><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33178]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility  That I did pluck allegiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility  That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,   Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths    Even in the presence of the crowned king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do. They're really making an effort in this campaign to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42443]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do. They're really making an effort in this campaign to reach out to all groups in society, and really show that they're both parties of diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery and innocence are not akin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery and innocence are not akin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my living food; I'm His by penitence, He is mine by grace; I'm His by purchase, He is mine by blood; He's my supporting elm, and I His vine: Thus I my Best-beloved's am; thus He is mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!1973]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47032]]></link><description><![CDATA[A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early herbs are springing:    When the brookside, bank, and grove     All with blossom laden,      Shine with beauty, breathe of love,       Woo the timid maiden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to flower he flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know what life is worth, you would look for yours on earth,And now you see the light, you stand up for right, yah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like blinking, I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like blinking, I do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Greece we give our shining blades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18285]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Greece we give our shining blades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans, Ivan or Tadao- a human atom with an existence bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way to achieve this end is by complete assimilation of the individual into a collective body. The fully assimilated individual does not see himself and others as human beings. When asked who he is, his automatic response is that he is a German, a Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a member of a certain tribe or family. He has no purpose, worth and destiny apart from his collective body; and as long as that body lives he cannot really die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324</guid></item></channel></rss>