<?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[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24535]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23039]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;  For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing.   To wander along by the wind-beaten hill.    But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion,     For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean,      Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion       He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying your colloquial pack,   The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27343]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,   That borrow their behaviors from the great,    Grow great by your example and put on     The dauntless spirit of resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This book fills a much-needed gap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25298]]></link><description><![CDATA[This book fills a much-needed gap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's always a shot in the locker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51036]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's always a shot in the locker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. And everywhere the tendency is to eliminate personality. Even where religion does not have this mystical character, it has no relation to an historical person, who communicates himself to me. That is the characteristic essence of the Christian faith alone. Even where a prophet plays the role of a mediator of divine truth, as for example in Islam, the religious act is not directed toward him but toward his teaching or message. But the Christian does not believe in the teachings of Jesus -- which would not be Christian faith, but general religion -- he believes in Christ Himself as being the Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58254]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,   Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft    Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld     With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the only constant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the only constant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recompiling doesn't matter...it's Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recompiling doesn't matter...it's Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57115</guid></item></channel></rss>