<?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[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28534]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62180]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33478]]></link><description><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of punches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be struggling. These girls are so new, I'm still finding out what positions they can play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,  Redeem truth from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,  Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier,   Chase brave employments with a naked sword    Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have     If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character matters; leadership descends from character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character matters; leadership descends from character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46044]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35630]]></link><description><![CDATA[He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48699]]></link><description><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks, which have risen too fast to high levels that can't be justified, had to come down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks, which have risen too fast to high levels that can't be justified, had to come down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57443]]></link><description><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human tendency to mistake faith for certainty. This is not a specially religious mistake. We think of supernaturalism when faith is mentioned, but the naturalistic description of the world also operates on assumptions that require a faith as robust as does the most soaring mysticism. The usual efforts to skirt faith beg all the questions there are. A psychiatrist, for instance, who points out to you that you believe in God the Father because you need a father, or that you became a missionary to expiate your guilt feelings, may be quite correct, but he has not touched on the prior question as to whether there is, in fact, a cosmic father figure who is the archetype of all other fathers, or whether there is an evangel worth spending your life promulgating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3590]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18687]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things--ignorance, alcohol, passion presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year than I had in the previous 18.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19343]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19343</guid></item></channel></rss>