<?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[God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19550]]></link><description><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised and rejected is the heritage of virtue. We would be poor, too; but without privation. And doubtless we are patient; except with hardships and with disagreeables. And so with all the virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to me to have come for a frank and direct translation of the Greek New Testament into our modern spoken American English. We take great pains to provide Asiatica and Africana with special versions, so that they may read the Bible each in his own tongue wherein he was born; and why not do as much for our young people, and our fellow citizens generally?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he will be tortured. But for political reasons, they don't want to come right out and say that they will go for deferral. They will leave it up to the judge to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing], ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28942]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing],]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play every game to make it to the next step, I'll definitely take something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824]]></link><description><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   Or the royal-hearted rose:    The pansy in purple dress,     The pink with cheek of red,      Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs,       Like a bashful maid her head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm suggesting to you (that) you are lying under oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm suggesting to you (that) you are lying under oath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest spirits in celestial lands!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans, Ivan or Tadao- a human atom with an existence bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way to achieve this end is by complete assimilation of the individual into a collective body. The fully assimilated individual does not see himself and others as human beings. When asked who he is, his automatic response is that he is a German, a Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a member of a certain tribe or family. He has no purpose, worth and destiny apart from his collective body; and as long as that body lives he cannot really die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way of the Heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62334]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61225]]></link><description><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the water out of the steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.  Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59731]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My star, God's glowworm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17574]]></link><description><![CDATA[My star, God's glowworm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11434</guid></item></channel></rss>