<?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[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20535]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very proud of that too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very proud of that too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of life, thou Light of men,  From the best bliss that earth imparts  We turn unfilled to Thee again.  We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,  And long to feast upon Thee still:  We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,  And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.   O Jesus, ever with us stay,  Make all our moments calm and bright;  Chase the dark night of sin away,  Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Castles are Forrests of stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Castles are Forrests of stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left back and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left back and your right back. We did a lot of that stuff today and it worked well for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25977]]></link><description><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a young kid still unsure of himself into a situation like that, I didn't think that was fair to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47125]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41724]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all alike, on the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all alike, on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33878]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  If the Holy Spirit can take over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy... The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Many Christians are Christians in their actions -- they don't lie, steal, commit adultery, or get drunk; but they react badly to what happens to them: they react in anger, bad temper, self-pity, jealousy, and envy... When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17347</guid></item></channel></rss>