<?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[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27605]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62676]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61422]]></link><description><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is this too little?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50748]]></link><description><![CDATA[No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16139]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again  To die before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58250]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again  To die before you please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent - that whole new-wave look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight,  The tempest itself lags ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27517]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight,  The tempest itself lags behind,   And the swift-winged arrows of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22358]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back onmy bass playing abilities.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25496]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The Church is her true self only when she exists for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54593]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;"  Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play,   An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day,    As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12107]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65092</guid></item></channel></rss>