<?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[Never judge a book by its movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a book by its movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64850]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66498]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take Him shopping with me. I say, "OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take Him shopping with me. I say, "OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60032]]></link><description><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a fan club with only two fans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a fan club with only two fans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, and he most violent author   Of his own just remove; the people muddied,    Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers     For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly      In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia       Divided from herself and her fair judgment,        Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;         Last, and as much containing as all these,          Her brother is in secret come from France,           Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,            And wants not buzzers to infect his ear             With pestilent speeches of his father's death,              Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,               Will nothing stick our person to arraign                In ear and ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61583]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6134]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green earth sends her incense up.  From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green earth sends her incense up.  From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup  She pours her sacred wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14112]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14112</guid></item></channel></rss>