<?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[Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--  Look to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal   Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren    Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25612]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27711]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897]]></link><description><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46132]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence they flow. He to whom any drop of their sweetness floweth may follow it up into the spring. Were we wise, each taste of mercy would lead us to the ocean of love. Have we any hold on a promise? We may get upon it, and it will bring us to the main, Christ Himself and the Spirit, and so into the bosom of the Father. It is our folly to abide upon a little, which is given us merely to make us press for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56874]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324]]></link><description><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48945]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Youth Volunteer Corps has helped us for about five years and we really depend on them to tackle big, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Youth Volunteer Corps has helped us for about five years and we really depend on them to tackle big, physical projects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64220]]></link><description><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We returned all of our starters from last year. I rotated a lot of bodies throughout the game, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We returned all of our starters from last year. I rotated a lot of bodies throughout the game, but I returned to my starters in the fourth quarter and they settled down at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Burmese leader welcomed our offer and explained to our president their seven-point political road map in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Burmese leader welcomed our offer and explained to our president their seven-point political road map in detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17237]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57595]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the antidote to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428]]></link><description><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8434]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man were a fitter repository for it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus  February 13, 1999  Faith is the source of energy in the struggle of life, but life still remains a battle which is continually renewed upon ever-new fronts. For every threatening abyss that is closed, another yawning gulf appears. The truth is -- and this is the conclusion of the whole matter -- the Kingdom of God is within us. But we must let our light shine before men in confident and untiring labor that they may see our good works and praise our Father in Heaven. The final ends of all humanity are hidden within His hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15748</guid></item></channel></rss>