<?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[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven once saw   Which North and South do bound,    The stars above would make thee known,     If men here silent were;      The sun himself cannot forget       His fellow traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32313]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65495]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. It looked like our players were hiding and just gave up. Trust me, we will address this in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crude gained a lot last week and we are giving some of that back. The U.S. led a large attack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crude gained a lot last week and we are giving some of that back. The U.S. led a large attack in Iraq last week, one that wasn't unprecedented, but the media got a hold of it and the market reacted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in angels, so it's simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in angels, so it's simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a single species off the list into recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some excitement is warranted, but the question is, how much? Either the stock is correct in that the recovery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some excitement is warranted, but the question is, how much? Either the stock is correct in that the recovery and earnings are going to be faster than analysts like me have predicted, or we're going to see the stock grind lower to a more sensible level in the next few months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I tell whether I am reading into the text, not only my own presuppositions and questions, but also those of my own generation and even those of my own church and religious tradition. Evangelicals have been too afraid of the word "criticism", when only by critical questioning can I sufficiently disengage myself from my own worldly or religious (even evangelical) tradition to ask: Is this what the Bible is really saying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on forgiveness: To live of love, it is to dry Thy tears,   To seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on forgiveness: To live of love, it is to dry Thy tears,   To seek for pardon for each sinful soul, To strive to save all men from doubts and fears,   And bring them home to Thy benign control. Comes to my ear sin's wild and blasphemous roar;   So, to efface each day, that burning shame, I cry: "O Jesus Christ! I Thee adore.   I love Thy Name!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56383</guid></item></channel></rss>