<?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[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4430]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight  To consolate thine ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight  To consolate thine ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. A lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue. You're sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. A lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue. You're sort of diving, and then you can't reach it, even if you dive perfectly and on cue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's kind of been the plan to take it slow, make sure there's no setbacks. Make sure nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's kind of been the plan to take it slow, make sure there's no setbacks. Make sure nothing bad happens. Be smart about it. But I definitely feel like I could have played, and I don't think it would've been an issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22233]]></link><description><![CDATA[What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released fromhis present service and provided with another master. Jupiter,after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him tobe sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he hadheavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, hepetitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling himthat it would be the last time that he could grant his request,ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he hadfallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation,said, groaning: It would have been better for me to have beeneither starved by the one, or to have been overworked by theother of my former masters, than to have been bought by mypresent owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, andmake me useful to him.He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58035]]></link><description><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16059]]></link><description><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail!  See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:   They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;    Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,     Purger of earth, and medicine of men;      Creating a sweet climate by my breath,       Washing out harms and griefs from memory,        And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,         Giving a hint of that which changes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is the forerunner of perdition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is the forerunner of perdition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and He does for us what He promised; and the thing works out. To our amazement, it works out. And then we settle down. We have had our own first-hand and irrefutable experience. But, instead of opening the windows to the glory of the sunshine so evidently there, instead of being incited to a hugeness of faith by what Christ has already done for us, we can't believe that there can be anything more, or that even He can work, for us, anything better. That first foretaste satisfies us. And so we camp for life out on the confines of the Kingdom, and never press on to inherit what is there and meant for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence, that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence, that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place to sleep. I turned down the offer to be in a camp that is set up in country ... they are occupying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like playing on the road when everyone is against you. It makes you feel good, when you win, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like playing on the road when everyone is against you. It makes you feel good, when you win, to see all those hurt faces in the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890</guid></item></channel></rss>