<?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[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's in an exhausted state most of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30017]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's in an exhausted state most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others to assist.   [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist    Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,     Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many friends in generall, one in speciall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many friends in generall, one in speciall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49621</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad:  Silence accompanied; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad:  Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,   They to they grassy couch, these to their nests,    Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.  ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn;  Yet juice of subtile virtue lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn;  Yet juice of subtile virtue lies   Within my cup of curious dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29136]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been pretty horrible. My girlfriend tried calling at about 12 o'clock the other night. She couldn't get one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been pretty horrible. My girlfriend tried calling at about 12 o'clock the other night. She couldn't get one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressedourselves to this problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,   And soars and shines, another and the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42413]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who have enrolled in classes at the University of Texas at El Paso.] I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester, ... They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39708]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her after the race if the male jockeys ever give her a roasting again she can truthfully say she can beat them with a leg in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can't find a central location, I don't think I'd be for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30890]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can't find a central location, I don't think I'd be for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63893]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is peace, God is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is peace, God is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66039</guid></item></channel></rss>