<?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[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46854]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus videretur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than likely, I'm going to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40718]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than likely, I'm going to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4741]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait for that first day of practice when everybody steps on that court and we all start on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait for that first day of practice when everybody steps on that court and we all start on that goal of getting to the Final Four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human tendency to mistake faith for certainty. This is not a specially religious mistake. We think of supernaturalism when faith is mentioned, but the naturalistic description of the world also operates on assumptions that require a faith as robust as does the most soaring mysticism. The usual efforts to skirt faith beg all the questions there are. A psychiatrist, for instance, who points out to you that you believe in God the Father because you need a father, or that you became a missionary to expiate your guilt feelings, may be quite correct, but he has not touched on the prior question as to whether there is, in fact, a cosmic father figure who is the archetype of all other fathers, or whether there is an evangel worth spending your life promulgating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing;  Out of the fragrant heart of bloom  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing;  Out of the fragrant heart of bloom   The apple-tree whispers to the room,    "Why art thou but a nest of gloom     While the bobolinks are singing?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had it when he got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had it when he got here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45208]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857]]></link><description><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5613]]></link><description><![CDATA[All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45377</guid></item></channel></rss>