<?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[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good contrast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30681]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good contrast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're 99.9 percent sure the judge is going to grant deferral. He is very satisfied with our case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to surrender to the inspiration whenever it strikes. When I clear my mind and let the music take over, my hands seem to move on their own, and my voice utters words I haven't premeditated. This is pure instinct. It's like riding a wave. You just take a deep breath, hop on, and hang on as long as you can. That's basically how I songwrite when I'm composing impromptu pieces. It's a lot like channeling. Or free associating. And it's super fun, because anything can happen! It's pure creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all is o'er,   A plunge, a bubble, and no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61912</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[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56874]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691]]></link><description><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they reflect -- is to begin with those to whom we owe the greatest responsibility -- those whom we most value -- our kids. Let's not just talk about it -- let's put kids first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2458]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even these are not properly done by hirelings --; it consists also in feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, covering the naked, receiving guests, visiting the sick and those in prison. By the doing of these things is the people to be instructed in the holy duties of an active life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1482]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. - Bhagavad Gita.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one thing to be brave -- another to be stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to be brave -- another to be stupid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the feet, Hercules. [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54930]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the feet, Hercules. [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49506]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49506</guid></item></channel></rss>