<?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[The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48142]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that's what Dick Cheney told him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, then we see clearly the great need we have of God, since without him we can do nothing good. No one is so good that he is immune to temptation; we will never [in this life] be entirely free of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest  Id velis quod possis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55094]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59768]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market has not stabilized yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market has not stabilized yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AT&T is pleased to enter this agreement that promises to establish a framework between the consumer electronics manufacturers and Internet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33900]]></link><description><![CDATA[AT&T is pleased to enter this agreement that promises to establish a framework between the consumer electronics manufacturers and Internet Protocol or IP-enabled video service providers to enable the commercial availability of devices that consumers can use in their home to watch IP-enabled video services. We look forward to bringing a new entertainment experience to our customers by delivering programming that consumers want while protecting the rights of our partners in the content community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30190]]></link><description><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a rusty from natives. Several states have gone as far as to make it illegal to use any crayfish as fishing bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19035]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someonemust be on top, why not you?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently he is close friends with some people. We don't care. That doesn't factor into what we do. He was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently he is close friends with some people. We don't care. That doesn't factor into what we do. He was selling drugs. If you're selling drugs you're going to jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29253</guid></item></channel></rss>