<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43664]]></link><description><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324]]></link><description><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those incemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,   As lovely as seems    To some bard in his dreams,     The soul of his latest love-ditty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. We should have played to conserve our 1-0 lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of wisdom is the man of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of wisdom is the man of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51872</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The philosopher [Immanuel] Kant was right long ago to notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The philosopher [Immanuel] Kant was right long ago to notice that moral activity implies a religious dimension. The atheist [Friedrich] Nietzsche also saw the point and argued forcefully that the person who gives up belief in God must be consistent and give up Christian morals as well, because the former is the foundation of the latter. He had nothing but contempt for fellow humanists who refused to see that Christian morality cannot survive the loss of its theological moorings, except as habit or as lifeless tradition. As Ayn Rand also sees so clearly, love of the neighbor cannot be rationally justified within the framework of secular humanism. Love for one's neighbor is an ethical implication of the Christian position. This suggests to me that the world's deepest problem is not economic or technological, but spiritual and moral. What is missing is the vision of reality that can sustain the neighbor-oriented life style that is so urgently needed in our world today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27219]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. "Religion" means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to save money. Someday it may be valuable again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to save money. Someday it may be valuable again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1939]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63226]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item></channel></rss>