<?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[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke 'em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3770]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61571]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all troops and now we only have 11 percent who say that. However, the percentage of college students who think we should withdraw some troops is much higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean,  Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean,  Whilst she, in the vault of heaven,   Moves with silent peaceful motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44102]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair and softly goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair and softly goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16414]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57561]]></link><description><![CDATA[thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to find their clothes after agame]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13118]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6577]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays less stress than he did upon every human being's need of forgiveness by God, and upon our human need to be perpetually forgiving each other. Sooner or later, the modern adult man, like all other men everywhere, must come to know his need to be forgiven, and that by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't like to think of anyone eating them, but we know that happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like to think of anyone eating them, but we know that happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15708]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56805]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65101</guid></item></channel></rss>