<?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[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66587]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this passing night was heard   In ancient days by emperor and clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460]]></link><description><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13025]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35582]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel is all promises on God's part, and that our part is only to believe them and to rely upon God for the performance of them, and to be very confident that He will make them good, though we do nothing else but only believe that He will do so. That the Christian religion is only a declaration of God's goodwill to us, without any expectation of duty from us -- this is an error which one could hardly think could ever enter into any who have the liberty to read the Bible and attend to what they read and find there. The three great promises of the gospel are all very expressly contained in our Saviour's first sermon upon the mount. There we find the promise of blessedness often repeated but never absolutely made, but upon certain conditions, plainly required on our part, as repentance, righteousness, humility, mercy, peaceableness, meekness, patience. Forgiveness of sins is likewise promised, but only to those who make a penitent acknowledgement of them and ask forgiveness for them., and are ready to grant that forgiveness to others which they beg of God for themselves. The gift of God's Holy Spirit is likewise promised, but it is upon condition of our earnest and importunate prayer to God. The gospel is everywhere full of precepts enjoining duty and obedience upon our part, as well as of promises on God's part, assuring blessings to us -- nay, full of terrible threatenings also if we disobey the precepts of the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29463]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is only a small part of all the forces of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, this is the short and the long of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, this is the short and the long of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56854]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That hatred springs more from self-contempt than from a legitimate grievance is seen in the intimate connection between hatred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52308]]></link><description><![CDATA[That hatred springs more from self-contempt than from a legitimate grievance is seen in the intimate connection between hatred and a guilty conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ty it well, and let it goe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ty it well, and let it goe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sure you are right, then go ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17358]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail polling day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37527]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail polling day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall never have it, The free German Rhine.  [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben   Den freien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall never have it, The free German Rhine.  [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben   Den freien deutschen Rhein.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good swimmers at length are drowned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good swimmers at length are drowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden-close;   Her tears, to the wind-flower,--his blood, to the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of these two is the greater fool?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon;  Under the rugged trees he strode,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43075]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon;  Under the rugged trees he strode,   Whistled and shifted his heavy load--    Whistled a foolish tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43075</guid></item></channel></rss>