<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is well said to be the speech of angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64278]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae metuant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is the symptom, not the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12480]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the symptom, not the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At one point I just ran and covered my son and that's when the room came down on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33336]]></link><description><![CDATA[At one point I just ran and covered my son and that's when the room came down on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves littlemore than changing our ideas about what is normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous; some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city. But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained, of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill, enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of it came up to him and went into his blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right as a trivet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right as a trivet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17684]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25918]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain,  So on the sea of life, alas!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain,  So on the sea of life, alas!   Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55638]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55638</guid></item></channel></rss>