<?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[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65588]]></link><description><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four times, what more do you need?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect that on Wednesday we will be asking people to inform the inquiry as to whether they have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect that on Wednesday we will be asking people to inform the inquiry as to whether they have any wish to examine the prime minister in relation to his statement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or anideal always before him, causes it, through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or anideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be burieddeeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to itsgenerative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of timeand with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thoughtunceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all yourfaculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12560]]></link><description><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the genesis of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the genesis of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go away until Labor Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12884]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9166]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do -- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst -- is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as yourdominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22709]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as yourdominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalition of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalition of this national will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46539</guid></item></channel></rss>