<?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[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16873]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</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[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895]]></link><description><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50963]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will give us a chance to get better markets up here because there's more demand for the corn and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will give us a chance to get better markets up here because there's more demand for the corn and more uses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,   Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,  And night by night the monitory blast   Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd    O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes,     Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt      Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods       Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that's another story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that's another story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The Church has always found it easier to fulfill her priestly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The Church has always found it easier to fulfill her priestly than her prophetic role. The temptation to institutionalism is always with us, and who will profess himself guiltless? We reduce Christianity to the service of an institution, the Church, for this enables us to be active in what is fondly called "the work of the Lord," while at the same time failing to grapple with the fundamental problem for all Christians, that of winning our generation for Christ. In our little circle of like-minded people we condemn outsiders because they do not come in. Perhaps we even make half-hearted attempts to get them to come in. And then we snuggle down again in the warmth of our fellowship, comforted that we have done all that might reasonably be expected of men in our situation. Fortified with this consolation we concentrate on keeping the institution, the Church, running as it should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling people that big money will not win this race. I have been everywhere, been through every neighborhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling people that big money will not win this race. I have been everywhere, been through every neighborhood I could. This is where everybody's missing the boat. They don't have a clue about what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44874]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,   Till the white-wing'd reapers come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266]]></link><description><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    The principle of sacrifice is that we choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    The principle of sacrifice is that we choose to do or to suffer what apart from our love we should not choose to do or to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53607]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can play with anybody in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can play with anybody in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither doesbathing-that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21204]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither doesbathing-that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai that in the sight of God there is indeed a difference between the sacred and the profane, but there is no difference between the spiritual and the social.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American people are behind them and support them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the first essential cell of human society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the first essential cell of human society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56159</guid></item></channel></rss>