<?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[The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20142]]></link><description><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887]]></link><description><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journey is the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journey is the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unjust peace is better than a just war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unjust peace is better than a just war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received the Distinguished Musician Award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44906]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my first feel for running in traffic. You have to get the feel for losing down force and play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my first feel for running in traffic. You have to get the feel for losing down force and play with that. Nothing at all has surprised me so far. We just have to learn to play in traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28268]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22194]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60939]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item></channel></rss>