<?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[A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25517]]></link><description><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque  Qui fasse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque  Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government has a solid base. The next government will be judged according to its pre-election promise: to fix Israel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government has a solid base. The next government will be judged according to its pre-election promise: to fix Israel's borders based on demographic considerations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.   I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without discipline dies without honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62539]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37141]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was pretty upset. I did get to talk to her in the ambulance, so that made things better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their appeal to reason, and insist on forthwith rejecting aught that lies beyond its sphere -- without, however, being able to render any clear account of the nature and proper limits of the knowledge thus derived, or of the relation in which such knowledge stands to the religious needs of men. I would invite you, therefore, to inquire seriously whether such persons are not really bowing down before an idol of the mind, which, while itself of very questionable worth, demands as much implicit faith from its worshipers as divine revelation itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this season)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God our Life and King Has given us light and spring and morning breaking Now may man's soul arise as kinsman to the skies, And God unseals his eyes to an awaking. Sing, creatures, sing; the dust that lives by lure and lust Is kindled by the thrust of life undying; This hope our Master bare has made all fortunes fair, And man can on and dare, his death defying. After the winter snows a wind of healing blows, And thorns put forth a rose, and lilies cheer us; Life's everlasting spring has robbed death of his sting, Henceforth a cry can bring our Master near us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise,  And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,   Till we join with the planets who choir their delight,    The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies     Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,      And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair       That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4764]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18]]></link><description><![CDATA[For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeeres know more then bookes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeeres know more then bookes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big question is what will happen over the next few years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51564]]></link><description><![CDATA[These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  The fundamental doctrines of our evangelical belief are... the full inspiration and ruling authority of Holy Scripture, with its consequences, the Divinity of Christ, the finality of His Atonement, and salvation through faith alone. These basic truths should be studied as set forth in the New Testament, that they may be asserted or defended whenever occasion requires. If this be done in a humble and Christian spirit, we shall in the long run be promoting the cause of Christian unity, which must ultimately find its basis in the truth which God has revealed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17699</guid></item></channel></rss>