<?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 drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its wing;   I sat, but neither heard nor saw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39101]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64715]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either move toward something you love or away from somethingyou fear. The first expands. The second constricts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22099]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either move toward something you love or away from somethingyou fear. The first expands. The second constricts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625]]></link><description><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and round the prospect wide,   When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is bestÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster ReliefÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is bestÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster ReliefÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â which has issued a $10 million appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101]]></link><description><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see what the (environmental impact statement) turns up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37879]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see what the (environmental impact statement) turns up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mel Karmazin is meretricious.His Viacom is avariciousHis CBS is quite litigiousHis public nudity isplanned and vicious.His Likud Party isvengeful, vicious.It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mel Karmazin is meretricious.His Viacom is avariciousHis CBS is quite litigiousHis public nudity isplanned and vicious.His Likud Party isvengeful, vicious.It's time to exorcise thelegionswhich have entered Karmazinthrough spirit lesions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46565</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[None of the competitors is stronger than him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28531]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the competitors is stronger than him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very excited about these stem cells. We're really on the cusp of making some big leaps forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very excited about these stem cells. We're really on the cusp of making some big leaps forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38286]]></link><description><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drought never brought dearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drought never brought dearth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49204</guid></item></channel></rss>