<?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[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/790]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teammates. So my junior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41332]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teammates. So my junior and senior years, I felt it was no longer my team. I lost a lot of good relationships and friendships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59547]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me  To speke of wo that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me  To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there is no reason to doubt but that the blessed spirits above, who continually "behold the face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there is no reason to doubt but that the blessed spirits above, who continually "behold the face of their Father", are still writing after this copy which is here propounded to us, and endeavouring to be "perfect as their Father which is in heaven is perfect", still aspiring after a nearer and more perfect resemblance of God, whose goodness and mercy is far beyond and before that of any creature, that they may be for ever approaching nearer to it and yet never overtake it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a fragrant world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a fragrant world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43809</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[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21624]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of business (or state). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of business (or state).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells old wives' tales much to the point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50247]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells old wives' tales much to the point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16287]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audience-friendly festival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audience-friendly festival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35193</guid></item></channel></rss>