<?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[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are strapped into waiting the five year period, even when the market price for our property has increased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are strapped into waiting the five year period, even when the market price for our property has increased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor without deserving;   To other some, deserving without honor;    Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;     Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to argue why legalization is not just an issue of labor but of protecting workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19355]]></link><description><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's love, it's love that makes the world go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34294]]></link><description><![CDATA[What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your face system. It's a fun game to watch and a fun game to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson dyes: I look and a great joy clutches my throat!  Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands fire-furled--   O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City in the World.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901]]></link><description><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif e'en va en beuvant."]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 5. the ministry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 5. the ministry of bearing   "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Gal. 6:2). Thus the law of Christ is a law of bearing. Bearing means forbearing and sustaining...   The Christian must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated. It is, first of all, the freedom of the other person that is a burden to the Christian. The freedom of the other person includes all that we mean by a person's nature, individuality, endowment. It also includes his weaknesses and oddities, which are such a trial to our patience, everything that produces frictions, conflicts, and collisions among us.   Then, there is the abuse of that freedom that becomes a burden for the Christian. In sin, fellowship with God and with his brother are broken. To cherish no contempt for the sinner but rather to prize the privilege of bearing him means not to have to give him up as lost, to be able to accept him, to preserve fellowship with him through forgiveness...   The service of forgiveness is rendered by one to the others daily. It occurs, without words, in the intercessions for one another. He who is bearing others knows that he himself is being borne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed fields of heaven where once my Faith possessed itself serenely safe from death; If I deny things past finding out; Or if I orphan my own soul from One That seemed a Father, and make void the place Within me where He dwelt in Power and Grace, What do I gain by what I have undone?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22249]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine and that by doing so it will force the Americans to take it seriously and give it a security role in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27861]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. - Skyline, 1961.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've gone through years where we've had really good teams at the top, but I'm not sure we've had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've gone through years where we've had really good teams at the top, but I'm not sure we've had a balance of six teams like this year. I'm not sure we have one great team, but we have six really good teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  The separate creaturely life, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  The separate creaturely life, as opposed to life in union with God, is only a life of various appetites, hungers, and wants, and cannot possibly be anything else. God Himself cannot make a creature to be in itself, or in its own nature, anything else but a state of emptiness. The highest life that is natural and creaturely can go no higher than this: it can only be a bare capacity for goodness and cannot possibly be a good and happy life but by the life of God dwelling in it and in union with it. And this is the two-fold life that, of all necessity, must be united in every good and happy and perfect creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23199]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread a city to the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   The Hebrew religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   The Hebrew religion was an unfinished religion. That is one of the best proofs of its divine inspiration. The prophets had the forward look [and] great things were yet to come. As one of the most daring expressed it, the old and hallowed covenant, made by God at the Exodus, would be superseded by a new and higher relation; God would write his law into the hearts of the people; the old drill in outward statutes would disappear, for all men would know God by an inward experience of forgiveness and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was on drugs and alcohol, and he threatened me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was on drugs and alcohol, and he threatened me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3800]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country--I'm a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45777]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country--I'm a Roman for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all those fine lines. It's just looking for any edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all those fine lines. It's just looking for any edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30751</guid></item></channel></rss>