<?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[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;    Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really obvious what went on to the players and managers. I hope what is being done will stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really obvious what went on to the players and managers. I hope what is being done will stop what was going on and also stop any possibility of further problems. I certainly hope this will be the end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In today's competitive marketplace, you can't afford to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In today's competitive marketplace, you can't afford to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46408]]></link><description><![CDATA[One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. Which is at the first sign of success they jump up to what they think is a greener pasture -- a big-time job somewhere else. But she's been patient enough to kind of build something that's going to be long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63510]]></link><description><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64664]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7498]]></link><description><![CDATA[By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59846]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18337]]></link><description><![CDATA[She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and if you don't come out and guard them, they are going to shoot 3s. We really struggled defensively, and honestly, that's the first time we've struggled defensively this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us it's about family. It affects my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us it's about family. It affects my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20431]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61945]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30289]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25547</guid></item></channel></rss>