<?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[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a living image of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a living image of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46281]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust,  Which frugal nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust,  Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do really good together. It will be kind of like this the whole year where one of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do really good together. It will be kind of like this the whole year where one of us can go in and the other can close, and I don't think it will be a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25856]]></link><description><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24285]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one in the sense of this world's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48589]]></link><description><![CDATA[With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[it couldn't have happened to a nicer person and it's a most fitting award. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28723]]></link><description><![CDATA[it couldn't have happened to a nicer person and it's a most fitting award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about it was I couldn't come to grips with it. I couldn't reason it out in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about it was I couldn't come to grips with it. I couldn't reason it out in my mind. It was very difficult. I didn't agree with it. I don't think I ever will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2932]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken on that look know where it's coming from. I'm not saying we invented it -- we drew influence from the Damned and the Misfits -- but it wasn't very popular when we started doing it. It's strange, but if you start worrying about stuff like that, it becomes less about being a songwriter and more about trying to control what's going on in some kind of scene.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy weeps them out again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,   Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Therefore it is not an inferior thing which has made the will evil, but it is itself which has become so by wickedly and inordinately desiring an inferior thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633</guid></item></channel></rss>