<?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[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we can all die laughing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13522]]></link><description><![CDATA[With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18607]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist violations, ... When they hit us, we will respond with an earthquake-like reaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29452]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you do that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44596]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to put it out of your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to put it out of your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By low ambition and the thirst of praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2317]]></link><description><![CDATA[By low ambition and the thirst of praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion and the mould of form,   Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country--I'm a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45777]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country--I'm a Roman for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1192]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing is of use to a houskeeper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,   Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46542]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you think of me is none of my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22112]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you think of me is none of my business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By labor fire is got out of stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23946]]></link><description><![CDATA[By labor fire is got out of stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to grow an old friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him love none and be by none beloved! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him love none and be by none beloved!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46742]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item></channel></rss>