<?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 time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that hath been made, under the blessing of God, of the conscientious observation of the Lord's day, in the past and present ages, unto the promotion of holiness, righteousness, and religion universally, in the power of it; and if they are not under invincible prejudices, it will be very difficult for them to judge that it is a plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted. For my part, I must not only say, but plead whilst I live in this world, and leave this testimony to the present and future ages, if these papers see the light and do survive, that if I have ever seen any thing in the ways and worship of God wherein the power of religion or godliness hath been expressed, any thing that hath represented the holiness of the gospel and the Author of it, any thing that hath looked like a preludium unto the everlasting Sabbath and rest with God, which we aim through grace to come unto, it hath been there and with them where and amongst whom the Lord's day hath been had in highest esteem, and a strict observation of it attended unto, as an ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61754]]></link><description><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My tendency is to philosophise   On most things, from a tyrant to a tree;    But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies,     What are we? and whence come we? what shall be      Our ultimate existence? What's our present?       Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55830]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset me all that much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understand that some groups can be shocked by the publication of certain information, but there are legal means -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understand that some groups can be shocked by the publication of certain information, but there are legal means -- in Denmark and elsewhere -- to resolve this problem. They can file defamation charges in courts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59641</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[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss   I carried from thee dear; and my true lip    Hath virgined it e'er since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone, ... And that is to lead the Columbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone, ... And that is to lead the Columbus Crew to the MLS Cup in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will have to take new measures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9688]]></link><description><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, we are not setting a new higher hurdle here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41739]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, we are not setting a new higher hurdle here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision. The worship of God is not a rule of safety: it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43747</guid></item></channel></rss>