<?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[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60643]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63225]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do -- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst -- is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34810]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31116]]></link><description><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue   Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,    And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4928</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[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could I have been anyone other than me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2294]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could I have been anyone other than me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55294]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645]]></link><description><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy is now./ The way to be happy is to make othersso.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5349]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13593</guid></item></channel></rss>