<?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 are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between style and fashion is quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between style and fashion is quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;  For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow  Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,  Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow,  And soonest our best men with thee do go,  Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,  And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well,  And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally,  And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644]]></link><description><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the recovery takes hold, the vulnerability we have surrounding these issues will diminish and they won't be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40339]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the recovery takes hold, the vulnerability we have surrounding these issues will diminish and they won't be able to impact the overall economy. And then investors will focus on the good news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17858]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53992]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity -- even if it bores them stiff!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in Indonesia. But they keep telling me to change the name Playboy, not the content. It's ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10794]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24759]]></link><description><![CDATA[If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what their wish list might say on it, they're going to have to be, in my mind, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37848]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what their wish list might say on it, they're going to have to be, in my mind, the impetus for fundraising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item></channel></rss>