<?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[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14366]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act is judged of by the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act is judged of by the event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36849]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26505]]></link><description><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21602]]></link><description><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd.   Else the soule grew so fast within,    It broke the outward shall of sinne     And so was hatch'd a cherubin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30531]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you make them, you keep taking them. It boosted our confidence for the second half of the game. When it feels good, I keep shooting if I am open. If I am not open, I look for my teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With everything we look at, there is something about gambling that relates to America. Eventually, we would want regulations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39807]]></link><description><![CDATA[With everything we look at, there is something about gambling that relates to America. Eventually, we would want regulations and controls because outside the U.S. is outside our ability to control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17887]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't all haha hehe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't all haha hehe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  Our thoughtful observer who is outside the Churches has done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  Our thoughtful observer who is outside the Churches has done a good deal of thinking on his own. The discoveries of modern physical and biological science, of astronomy, and of psychology, have profoundly influenced his conception of the "size" of God. If there be a Mind behind the immense complexities of the phenomena that man can observe, then it is that of a Being tremendous in His power and wisdom: it is emphatically not that of a little god. It is perfectly conceivable that such a Being has a moral purpose which is being worked out on the stage of this small planet. It is even possible to believe that such a God deliberately reduced Himself to the stature of humanity in order to visit the earth in Person, as all Christians affirm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-same thing they will abhor. One way, and long another for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-same thing they will abhor. One way, and long another for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if they say it's safe, I don't know if I want to stay here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if they say it's safe, I don't know if I want to stay here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34404]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8443]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every citizen is king under a citizen king. [Fr., Tout citoyen est roi sous un roi citoyen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every citizen is king under a citizen king. [Fr., Tout citoyen est roi sous un roi citoyen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54465</guid></item></channel></rss>