<?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[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy matters what else you have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; opens a new world   When this, the present, palls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman, amends may never come to late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman, amends may never come to late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23315]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3038]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time creatively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time creatively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nobody is going to buy this thing, then nobody in private industry is going to support it. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nobody is going to buy this thing, then nobody in private industry is going to support it. It comes down to what will the consumer accept as an annoyance and a privacy risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set of attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is unsafe and it is privately owned, no matter what they think. The fences are up for a reason. It's awful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying  To save her poor husband as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61869]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying  To save her poor husband as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what is not known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50805]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what is not known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/963]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should beware   Of lightness in his speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,    Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24109</guid></item></channel></rss>