<?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[To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22630]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34939]]></link><description><![CDATA[a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10033]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cholerick man never wants woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cholerick man never wants woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/70]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/70</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades, ... That's all I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They're also concerned about their next election -- and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44092]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know one thing - that Tim Holland led police to the body. I think a lot of information can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know one thing - that Tim Holland led police to the body. I think a lot of information can be drawn from that fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement.Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement.Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positiveresult. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58327]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near   Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,    Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry     Amid thy cloud-built streets.   - Rev. Frederick William Faber,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29787]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already political, and the target now is the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,   Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;    Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld     One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary neo-pagan values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56653</guid></item></channel></rss>