<?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[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was in the sand numerous times and her sand game, like I said, was extremely good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32442]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was in the sand numerous times and her sand game, like I said, was extremely good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. The vaccine is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more dependable shopping lists, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more dependable shopping lists,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4183]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare  How much themselves more precious are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare  How much themselves more precious are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26368]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55521]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45236]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,   Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than a quarter of the state's economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5785]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63817]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54337]]></link><description><![CDATA[All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom to prove a point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41993]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the process we?re so awful small. This gives us a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2386]]></link><description><![CDATA[America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62070</guid></item></channel></rss>