<?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[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11035]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   And the ground beneath them trembles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27141]]></link><description><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15037]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight,  Such heav'nly figures from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45413]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight,  Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,   So warm with light his blended colors glow.    . . . .     The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring      Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61785]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;   Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;    I'll wind thee up no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone started shooting, and they had their caribou. They came to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone started shooting, and they had their caribou. They came to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look into the face of Jesus that we are looking into the face of God? The answer is so plain and simple that it is a marvel how intelligent men can manage to miss it as they do. Look at what Christ has done for the soul of man: that is your answer. Christianity is just Christ --nothing more and nothing less. It is a way of life, and He is that way. It is the truth about human destiny, and He is that truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.  But thou art deeper read and better skilled:   Come and take choice of all my library,    And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens     Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do they trust on the way to move forward. The legacy of Sharon will live on, irrespective of who succeeds him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20520]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,   Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,    An emblem yields to friends and enemies     How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified      By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46824]]></link><description><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I breath, I hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19814]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I breath, I hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to get out there -- this was their first night -- and they didn't get to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2785]]></link><description><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size,   Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2785</guid></item></channel></rss>