<?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[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56595]]></link><description><![CDATA[[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45134]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scratch a lover, and find a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scratch a lover, and find a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46230]]></link><description><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1098</guid></item><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[I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65240]]></link><description><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21573]]></link><description><![CDATA[What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the teams at this point are running off adrenalin. Everyone is hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40328]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the teams at this point are running off adrenalin. Everyone is hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,  It is not night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,  It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise  To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the protocols. So why you turning back? I'm still the same talent and watching as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every now and then say, 'What the f***.' 'What the f*** gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every now and then say, 'What the f***.' 'What the f*** gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -Jawaharlal Nehru.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit us when our wealth is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14328</guid></item></channel></rss>