<?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[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person of wisdom is the person of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person of wisdom is the person of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62377]]></link><description><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  It is not for nothing that the central rite of Christ's religion is not a fast but a feast, as if to say that the one indispensable requirement for obtaining a portion in Him is an appetite, some hunger -- is to be without what we must have and He can give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ever been a part of in my whole life. I think everyone should feel that way about prom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19878]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars;  Show my visage as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45418]]></link><description><![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars;  Show my visage as you find it,   Less than truth my soul abhors."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the Turkish nation killed by Armenians,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50745]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item></channel></rss>