<?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[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,   And the yellow god forever gazes down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16934]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat thy company   To see the wonders of the world abroad    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,     Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37965]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom triumphs over chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom triumphs over chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62560]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.  At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,   We will remember them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29212]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every kid has a dream of owning and driving a race car. I have always had a love for cars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every kid has a dream of owning and driving a race car. I have always had a love for cars especially fast cars, and this is a dream come true. I'll stick to driving the basketball lane and let P.J. handle the fast lane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because Christ is in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33115]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only want people around me who can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only want people around me who can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14770]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61777]]></link><description><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   But 'tis so in the song.    My wants are many, and, if told,     Would muster many a score;      And were each wish a mint of gold,       I still should long for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet,  Downy and soft and warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet,  Downy and soft and warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no threats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64130</guid></item></channel></rss>