<?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[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With any bank consolidation, there are efficiencies to be gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41947]]></link><description><![CDATA[With any bank consolidation, there are efficiencies to be gained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind.  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind.  What error leads must error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dreamed I'd be honored for something that I've enjoyed so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dreamed I'd be honored for something that I've enjoyed so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62868]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41178]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4942]]></link><description><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made a commitment to improve out community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made a commitment to improve out community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her honeymoon, and that's priceless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40160]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young and they are doing these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38367]]></link><description><![CDATA[is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, that is militarily effective and loyal to the established civil government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautifuljewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, andthat people can only experience true success and enduring happiness asthey learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you kidnapped Jeff, you contacted me at my residence and we discussed matters of importance to us both. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you kidnapped Jeff, you contacted me at my residence and we discussed matters of importance to us both. My telephone number remains the same and my willingness to continue this dialogue remains as strong as it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361]]></link><description><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3849]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until she smiled on me:    Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,     A well of love, a spring of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there is such confusion in my powers   As, after some oration fairly spoke    By a beloved prince, there doth appear     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,      Where every something being blent together       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy        Expressed and not expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40485]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61621]]></link><description><![CDATA[No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526</guid></item></channel></rss>