<?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[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choice to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choice to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hair stood upright like porcupine quills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18575]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51718]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13846]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood;   And those that under Araby's soft sun    Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware of the fact that their competence in science does not give them a clue to the problem of how their science should be used in the service of man. The sensitive visitor to the mesas of Los Alamos is almost sure to meditate on the experience of that gifted man, Klaus Fuchs. Though his work in the laboratories was outstanding, his decision concerning the use of what he knew was disastrous. What if, in addition to his scientific competence, the younger Fuchs had shared something of the Christian conviction of his father, Emil Fuchs? Much of the subsequent history of our earth might then have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man says--"So, so." Heaven says--"No, no." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man says--"So, so." Heaven says--"No, no."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is in the eye of the logician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is in the eye of the logician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11816]]></link><description><![CDATA[In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57265]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all you do is say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24377]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all you do is say what the shit does, and add "er". I wanna work for the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute. Hey, what does that do? It keeps shit fresh. Well, that's a fresher....I'm going on break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36231]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with their rights under prevailing laws and regulations,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622]]></link><description><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,   And blanch, without the owner's crime,    The most resplendent hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item></channel></rss>