<?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[Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47386]]></link><description><![CDATA[...if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willing contemplation of vice is vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willing contemplation of vice is vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61776]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one shot, and the crowd gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one shot, and the crowd gets into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19659]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17018]]></link><description><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know her was to love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know her was to love her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,  The sparkling eyes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,  The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments--   The white arms and the raven hair--the braids,    And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace,     An India in itself, yet dazzling not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we still have a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Falstaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Falstaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore,  Replete with strange hermetic powder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore,  Replete with strange hermetic powder   That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30921]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858]]></link><description><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50748]]></link><description><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43327]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774</guid></item></channel></rss>