<?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[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste makes waste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste makes waste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove yearly what can be adopted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a decision that my family and I reached. I will be staying at Stone in my present administrative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36055]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a decision that my family and I reached. I will be staying at Stone in my present administrative capacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58490]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395]]></link><description><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32724]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. With our high level of customer service, we take a personal interest in every home we build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66592]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66592</guid></item></channel></rss>