<?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[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you, frankly, I had a very good feeling the last few days. I had a very positive feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you, frankly, I had a very good feeling the last few days. I had a very positive feeling thinking things will go all right. I'm thrilled that it came to this end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64127]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the shore.. one looksupward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000green brushes attemptingwhere they laidto paint the blue skyjade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3220]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the shore.. one looksupward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000green brushes attemptingwhere they laidto paint the blue skyjade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56389]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/146]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31486]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I had not so much of man in me,   And all my mother came into mine eyes    And gave me up to tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63720]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1097]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57177]]></link><description><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People are shooting!,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's going to be a painful few days or two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's going to be a painful few days or two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24963]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids came out from the beginning and took care of business. That is all they really wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids came out from the beginning and took care of business. That is all they really wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23928]]></link><description><![CDATA[American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should blush   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,    To show myself a glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favour is half granted, when graciously refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting that motel next door as much as anything is the story. Parking expansion is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting that motel next door as much as anything is the story. Parking expansion is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39808</guid></item></channel></rss>