<?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[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2803]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have an exciting adventure ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33199]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have an exciting adventure ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brownout occurs when you forget what happened until you start hearing about it and then your memory slowly comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brownout occurs when you forget what happened until you start hearing about it and then your memory slowly comes back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are spending to rebuild their lives, even if they don't have a job or have lost their home. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36030]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are spending to rebuild their lives, even if they don't have a job or have lost their home. I thought we would have seen quite a slowdown. But people are apparently trying to keep as much of their lifestyles as they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12958]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17773]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58475]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13144]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of our fugitive dust problems arise when it gets very windy. What we have seen is when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31566]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of our fugitive dust problems arise when it gets very windy. What we have seen is when we see those dust storms, it's usually due to man-made activities, like construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44088]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of wisdom, the new law, is, "Thou shalt." To be Christian is to be old? Not a bit of it. To be Christian is to be reborn, and free, and unafraid, and immortally young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56442]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God. You need to be in a state of decorum. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God. You need to be in a state of decorum. You must ask yourself: How would God like to see me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5785]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They long to be / Close to you / On the day that you were born the angels got together / And decided to create a dream come true / So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair and golden starlight in your eyes of blue...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53219</guid></item></channel></rss>