<?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[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would get within two or three, then turn the ball over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would get within two or three, then turn the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arch never sleeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3020]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arch never sleeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a generation of young people who have grown up with recycling, and now they can't throw a can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a generation of young people who have grown up with recycling, and now they can't throw a can away. I think that will happen with water conservation. The priority should be in helping people learn how to do it themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind  And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks,  In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave  Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house  With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break  And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan  And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart  May Lord Christ enter in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltrydecorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish watersthrough a marsh, without either honour or observation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7576]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61502]]></link><description><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we laugh a little too much before games when we are warming up. We just need to focus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we laugh a little too much before games when we are warming up. We just need to focus on what we are doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gaine is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood cannot be washed out with blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you put yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you come out and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28383]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you put yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you come out and hold them to three points then you have done your job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   Thy letter, though is long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country dogges bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49539]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country dogges bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I have wronged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36850]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I have wronged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20767</guid></item></channel></rss>