<?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[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31824]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in society that want to position sex as something that's taboo or dirty. What our publication does is put out the message that it's all good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has the potential to be a seminal film. That's if people dig it, and I think they will. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33992]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has the potential to be a seminal film. That's if people dig it, and I think they will. This is a film with a universal message. People who are 12 and people who are 45 will get something out of it that they can take back to their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63549]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little -- at best, so poor and pinched and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little -- at best, so poor and pinched and stingey a hospitality and such meagre fare; for I have nothing worthy of Him to set before Him, only a kind of affection, real enough at times, but which, at others, can and does so easily forget; only a will, quite unreliable, deplorably unstable; only a faith that is the merest shadow of what His real friends mean when they speak about faith, I know. But, there was once a garret up under the roof, a poor, bare place enough. There was a table in it, and there were some benches, and a water-pot; a towel, and a basin in behind the door, but not much else -- a bare, unhomelike room. But the Lord Christ entered into it. And, from that moment, it became the holiest of all, where souls innumerable ever since have met the Lord God, in High glory, face to face. And, if you give Him entrance to that very ordinary heart of yours, it too He will transform and sanctify and touch with a splendour of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42043]]></link><description><![CDATA[His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3012]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road  That leads me to the Lamb Return, O holy Dove, return,  Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made Thee mourn  And drove Thee from my breast The dearest idol I have known,  Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne,  And worship only Thee. So shall my walk be close with God,  Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road  That leads me to the Lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;   For thou must die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62593]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47560]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of those things that is a nightmare. That should never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39477]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of those things that is a nightmare. That should never happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,   By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55383]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19604]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41146]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and he knows how to get ahead in the count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41146</guid></item></channel></rss>