<?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[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better lose a jest than a friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better lose a jest than a friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   Out o'er the grassy lea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,   'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--    'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. There's been a slow build, but we're playing for a lot more people, and the kids seem to know the new songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;  The Plants suck in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;  The Plants suck in the Earth and are   With constant Drinking fresh and fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed fish, and these men would never again kill Serb children in the Serb Drina valley. But they would let the women go so they can suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll find a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll find a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20542</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[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44202]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52707]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;   Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and -- if he has attained a high degree of emancipation -- from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sandstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city -- anonymous, identical, replaceable units. In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man's loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: "Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it related to, and dis tinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?" The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47438</guid></item></channel></rss>