<?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[The problem with people is that they're only human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have an intense atmosphere, and it will test our mettle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach   When all is summer there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking parts of the Day of Atonement is that of the scapegoat. The high priest placed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6372]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking parts of the Day of Atonement is that of the scapegoat. The high priest placed both his hands on the head of a goat and confessed all the sins of the nation. Then the goat carrying the sins of the people is sent off into the wilderness. But it is not just a piece of history!   There is in the modern world a quest for scapegoats though with one enormous difference. Whenever there is an accident or a tragedy, there is a search for someone to blame. Often all the modern means of communication join in; accusations, resignations, demands for compensation and the rest. If a guilty person is found, then an orgy of condemnation and vilification. Rarely a sense of, there but for the grace of God go I. Instead of dealing gently with one another's failure because of our own vulnerability to criticism, there is the presumption that we are in a fit condition to judge and to condemn.   The enormous difference? The original scapegoat followed a confession of the sins of the people. There was no blaming of someone else, but an admission of guilt and a quest for the forgiveness of God. The goat wasn't hated, but was a dramatic picture of the carrying away sins. It was the very opposite of a selfrighteous victimisation of someone else.   Ever since 200 A.D., Christians have seen the scapegoat as a picture of Jesus. As it was led out to die in the wilderness bearing the sins of the people, so he was crucified outside Jerusalem for our sins. We are to be both forgiven and forgiving people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11511]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--   Nature's observatory--whence the dell,    In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,     May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep      'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap       Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,   And, consecrated by the heaven within it,    The sky-blue pool a font.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20472]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63802]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46592]]></link><description><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very good move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very good move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54568]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19352]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like feeling a piece of soap   All over the moo-cow's nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and oyle are ever above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and oyle are ever above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643</guid></item></channel></rss>