<?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[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39317]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, the same ritual as in the wild.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36924]]></link><description><![CDATA[For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exactly HAS the military done to get to the bottom of this? They launched an investigation that lasted, apparently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exactly HAS the military done to get to the bottom of this? They launched an investigation that lasted, apparently, a matter of hours. And now they tell us there's nothing they can do, and nothing they're going to do, about the outright racist abuse of Muslims by U.S. troops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not caught up in terms of information and equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not caught up in terms of information and equipment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject of Mr. Bean].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58751]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than any other religion or, indeed, than any other element in human experience, Christianity has made for the intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6302]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than any other religion or, indeed, than any other element in human experience, Christianity has made for the intellectual advance of man in reducing languages to writing, creating literatures, promoting education from primary grades through institutions of university level, and stimulating the human mind and spirit to fresh explorations into the unknown. It has been the largest single factor in combating, on a world-wide scale, such ancient foes of man as war, famine, and the exploitation of one race by another. More than any other religion, it has made for the dignity of human personality. This it has done by a power inherent within it of lifting lives from selfishness, spiritual mediocrity, and moral defeat and disintegration, to unselfish achievement and contagious moral and spiritual power and by the high value which it set upon every human soul through the possibilities which it held out of endless growth in fellowship with the eternal God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture, with us, ends in headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture, with us, ends in headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25825]]></link><description><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33060]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of the craziness of the time, ... He was our historian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60596]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483]]></link><description><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se  Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll print it, And shame the fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll print it, And shame the fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,   That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious    To have mistrusted her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,  Where high-born men were proud to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5513]]></link><description><![CDATA[How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,  Where high-born men were proud to wait--   Where Beauty watched to imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and I should have stopped more pucks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26737</guid></item></channel></rss>