<?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[Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man's power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because, while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe as a whole should think it unsuitable for a single human body to be by Him actuated and enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house,  Bequeathed down from many ancestors,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house,  Bequeathed down from many ancestors,   Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world    In me to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45804]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-iscalled the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "DeadZone.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again  Thanksgivings for the golden hours,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again  Thanksgivings for the golden hours,   The early and the latter rain!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale,  And nightly to the listening earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale,  And nightly to the listening earth   Repeats the story of her birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he go 41 other times? I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive  Whether I blush or no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive  Whether I blush or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35626]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us. Once we got into our game, we played really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. By God, Harry was in the line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. By God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item></channel></rss>