<?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 mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's Niven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so much. I didn't put her photo in a frame where I could see it. I stored it all away. I kept them, and every once in a while I'd look through them for a few minutes and then put it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17621]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. (2 Kings 18:5)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57801]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as the president of the Serb Republic, I have to say that these nine days of July of the Srebrenica tragedy represent a black page in the history of the Serb people. [in the first official recognition of the massacre]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13726</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[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64827]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66644]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34085]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968]]></link><description><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And rides upon the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to see, hard to foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to see, hard to foresee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41053]]></link><description><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,  May sigh to think he still has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,  May sigh to think he still has found   The warmest welcome, at an inn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66449]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree,  How will their grudging stomachs be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12563]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree,  How will their grudging stomachs be provoked   To willfull disobedience, and rebel!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8286</guid></item></channel></rss>