<?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[Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover quicker than us coaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573]]></link><description><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and move there, and now we understand, the best reports we're getting that our house there is underwater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."    "And Pluto?"     "A fable; we perish utterly."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14842]]></link><description><![CDATA[No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest rates are just part of the costs in the real sector. With inflation starting to ease, we expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest rates are just part of the costs in the real sector. With inflation starting to ease, we expect that these costs can be reduced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51546]]></link><description><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23817]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48361]]></link><description><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom to prove a point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws   And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28948]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47646]]></link><description><![CDATA[...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12676]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12676</guid></item></channel></rss>