<?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[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute the members of their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20910]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50793]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37907]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52677]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [must not] underestimate the enormity of the claim [made by the Jews]. Again and again in the Pentateuch, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [must not] underestimate the enormity of the claim [made by the Jews]. Again and again in the Pentateuch, the psalms, the prophets, and the subsequent writings which derive from them, the claim is made that the creator of the entire universe has chosen to live uniquely on a small ridge called Mount Zion, near the eastern edge of the Judean hill-country. The sheer absurdity of this claim, from the standpoint of any other worldview (not least that of Enlightenment philosophy), is staggering. The fact that Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Egypt again, Syria and now Rome had made explicit mockery of the idea did not shake this conviction, but only intensified it. This was what Jewish monotheism looked like on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't do wood alone. But take some of those wood bangles, especially in darker colors, and mix them with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't do wood alone. But take some of those wood bangles, especially in darker colors, and mix them with gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God...  Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you...  Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him...  Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64898</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[The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one even knew it was happening. We're going to work with the contractor to ensure that it's consistent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33037]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one even knew it was happening. We're going to work with the contractor to ensure that it's consistent with the OMB policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is useful cannot be base]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber  The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber  The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend   He now dare trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66415]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44703</guid></item></channel></rss>