<?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[You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,rnLove like you'll never be hurt,rnSing like there's nobody listening,rnAnd live like it's heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,rnLove like you'll never be hurt,rnSing like there's nobody listening,rnAnd live like it's heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56871]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest labor bears a lovely face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest labor bears a lovely face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that contemplates hath a day without night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49331]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that contemplates hath a day without night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21371]]></link><description><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,   With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With no more sign of wisdom than a beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51726]]></link><description><![CDATA[With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18836]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won'tsucceed; you must have a larger ambition. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won'tsucceed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in businesssuccess...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfullywithin these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so muchabout, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories are valid or invalid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- though they are troublesome enough. The centre of trouble is in the personality of man as a whole, which is self-centred and can only be wholesome and healthy if it is God-centred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/76]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/76</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56642]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will miss a wonderful season. We've got a very talented bunch of people, and some of them are very young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29385]]></link><description><![CDATA[will miss a wonderful season. We've got a very talented bunch of people, and some of them are very young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087</guid></item></channel></rss>