<?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[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17369]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your face bare; I am all face. [Fr., Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your face bare; I am all face. [Fr., Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout face.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the vice president's fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the vice president's fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have executed the will of God and the rule of law because he killed people, ordered assaults on fighters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have executed the will of God and the rule of law because he killed people, ordered assaults on fighters and he had a big file of corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was interrupted only by my schooling ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was interrupted only by my schooling]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has set in the midst of you, as the ever present witness and figure of heaven, His holy House ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6185]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has set in the midst of you, as the ever present witness and figure of heaven, His holy House of Prayer. There it stands, built for no earthly purpose, different in shape, and in all things belonging to it, from earthly habitations; speaking only of heaven, and heavenly uses, and heavenly gifts, and heavenly blessings; the gate of heaven when we are brought into it as little children to Christ; the gate of heaven, if so God grant us, when we are brought to it, and pass through it the last time on our way to our grave beside it. And here we meet our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to educate kids on what they can expect if they decide to go into the military. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37430]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to educate kids on what they can expect if they decide to go into the military. We want to make them aware of what they're getting themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the board is not voting 5-0 doesn't mean it's dysfunctional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54592]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60226]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, Horatio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20531]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, Horatio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39001]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,   And a wide realm of wild reality,    And dreams in their development have breath,     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56625</guid></item></channel></rss>