<?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 think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three  On the mossed elm; three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three  On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime   Trembling,--and one upon the old oak tree!    Where is the Dryad's immortality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;  Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;  Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,   And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl;    Serenely full the epicure would say,     "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53217]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085]]></link><description><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam   That through his lattice peeped derisively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain,  Oft have I seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1970]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain,  Oft have I seen the war of winds contend,   And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend,    Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn,     The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne,      As light straw and rapid stubble fly       In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, ... Our only hope is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28333]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, ... Our only hope is that we are able to defeat the constitution and start again with a government that truly represents the Iraqi people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for everydream precedes the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for everydream precedes the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15257]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning to those who do not abide by law and justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25790]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. "Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship," "that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled" -- "He suffered under Pontius Pilate." God died -- not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59846]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., Dans l'adversite de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/693]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56454]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware Of entrance to a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was better than the last one. He spotted the ball exceptionally well and kept the ball down, throwing all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was better than the last one. He spotted the ball exceptionally well and kept the ball down, throwing all of his pitches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item></channel></rss>