<?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[Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25357]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical idiots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14605]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2263]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32273]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place to sleep. I turned down the offer to be in a camp that is set up in country ... they are occupying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36180]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51366]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23550]]></link><description><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who fails to plan, plans to fail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46658]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who fails to plan, plans to fail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She couldn't have played without it. Her ankle looked like a football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28600]]></link><description><![CDATA[She couldn't have played without it. Her ankle looked like a football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and finally get out on this court, the one we've seen in our locker room for four years now. It's just really amazing to get out there and see what it's like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where would we be without salt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where would we be without salt?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26079]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26079</guid></item></channel></rss>