<?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[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol is the measure of the worshipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol is the measure of the worshipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The front row of people is 50 feet away, which throws you off. But the crowd reaction was pretty amazing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The front row of people is 50 feet away, which throws you off. But the crowd reaction was pretty amazing, from what I could see. Rocking that many people, that's something I'd like to get used to doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alis volat Propriis [She flies with her own wings] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alis volat Propriis [She flies with her own wings]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9974]]></link><description><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the medicine worse than the malady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the medicine worse than the malady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602]]></link><description><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not;  Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great king, Few love to hear the sins they love to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.  So that no wonder waits him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his dedication to the program, and he really enjoys working with the boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not unman each other--part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever,  Else they make an eternity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not unman each other--part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever,  Else they make an eternity of moments,   And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38060]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47315]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12020]]></link><description><![CDATA[No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31765]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a singer, has dreams and aspirations, makes it as a star.’ JLo could pull that off, give it to her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27011]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091</guid></item></channel></rss>