<?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[Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noting is more difficult than competing with a myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noting is more difficult than competing with a myth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't explain it, ... It's just happened for me while I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't explain it, ... It's just happened for me while I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60648]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first beholds the light of day In Spring's sweet flowery month of May  And wears an Emerald all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first beholds the light of day In Spring's sweet flowery month of May  And wears an Emerald all her life,   Shall be a loved and happy wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when we think we lead, we are most led. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24476]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when we think we lead, we are most led.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43673</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><item><title><![CDATA[It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11630]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss me and you will see how important I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss me and you will see how important I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had to fight like hell and fighting like hell has made me what I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had to fight like hell and fighting like hell has made me what I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36112]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:  So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,   Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6600]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is loose upon the world, the Devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth. Death like a dog runs howling from his lair; His bite has made men mad, they follow after All howling too, and their demoniac laughter Drowns like a sea our solitary prayer. Return, 0 Lord, return. Come with the day, Come with the light, that men may see once more Across this earth's uncomfortable floor The kindly paths, the old and loving way. Let us not die of evil in the night. Let there be God again. Let there be light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. interest rates aren't going to necessarily support the dollar anymore. Each interest rate hike is having less impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33750]]></link><description><![CDATA[U.S. interest rates aren't going to necessarily support the dollar anymore. Each interest rate hike is having less impact on the currency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All covet, all lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All covet, all lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And bid them speak for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64822</guid></item></channel></rss>