<?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[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14481]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9265]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64195]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24839]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37521]]></link><description><![CDATA[an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46985]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35847]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action -- you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things... You are not called to get to heaven, to do good, or to be good -- you are called to belong to Jesus Christ. The doing good, the being good, and the getting to heaven, are the by-products of that belonging. The center of conversion is the belonging of a person to a Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let it slip away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18684]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;   But life, being weary of these worldly bars,    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men were living before Agamemnon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men were living before Agamemnon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44612]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2462]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 people swarming to the ball, gang tackling. We're doing a lot better job of that this year, a lot more like were accustomed to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45606]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge- they were all messages of love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either I will find a way, or I will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either I will find a way, or I will make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living   Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45925</guid></item></channel></rss>