<?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[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64613]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said: 'Judge me as an accused person. What crimes did I commit?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29821]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said: 'Judge me as an accused person. What crimes did I commit?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does not race at the sight of a blue whale. •Dale Rice   Nothing excites jaded grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty •Dominic Lawson   I used to be a hopeless romantic -- I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Now I'm a little more . . . jaded •Source Unknown  People say the word 'naive' as if it were a bad thing. Frankly, I believe that being naive, like a child, is being innocent. Being innocent is happiness. Once innocence is lost there is no turning back, we have now become cynical and jaded adults •Source Unknown  We'll have to change our jaded ways, but I've loved these days. •Billy Joel  ...time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own. •John Randolph  I'm not jaded but I'm not controlled by my emotions. It's not that I'm emotionless, I just have the ability not to be controlled by things like love and hate. •Marilyn Manson  If I don't make it know that, I've loved you all along. Just like sunny days that, we didn't know because we're all dumb and jaded , and I pray to God I figure out whats wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14125]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most cases, we're talking about sleeping in an armchair for the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36332]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most cases, we're talking about sleeping in an armchair for the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16646]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51354]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5098]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</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[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64221]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're so involved. They really believe in what they're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32677]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're so involved. They really believe in what they're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom and equality. He defended the rights of Palestinians, their freedom and independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18129]]></link><description><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see a gathering in the Dead Sea area--I have a feeling it's in Jordan. People will be going there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32099]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see a gathering in the Dead Sea area--I have a feeling it's in Jordan. People will be going there from all over the world--world political leaders. It's very significant and affects the rest of the world by summer's end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52958]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53553]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53553</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 gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53670]]></link><description><![CDATA[No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53670</guid></item></channel></rss>