<?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[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53546]]></link><description><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25079]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52406]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my vain self, and vain things which have power   Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.    And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked the feeling of being in the middle of trouble and trying to find a way out. Football is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked the feeling of being in the middle of trouble and trying to find a way out. Football is my life story happening on a football field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is half the savings that Pfizer achieved with its recently announced program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31190]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is half the savings that Pfizer achieved with its recently announced program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66588]]></link><description><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18437]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if you connive enough. It doesn't surprise me you can get other people's cell phone bills for a fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.   - Richard Rowland,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32995]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we haven't been doing too well, but I'm pretty confident that as the season goes on, people will be looking me up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52191]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated!  Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!   What triumph! hark!--what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated!  Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!   What triumph! hark!--what pain!    . . . .     Again--thou hearest?      Eternal passion!       Eternal pain!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mighty contests rise from trivial things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mighty contests rise from trivial things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28632]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season you couldn't call up a guy like him. He's close. He's close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item></channel></rss>