<?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 needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49512]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was planning on doing something, but I wanted to act like I've been in the end zone before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was planning on doing something, but I wanted to act like I've been in the end zone before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963]]></link><description><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union of hands--   And the flag of our Union for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there is not a day,   The longest, not the twenty-first of June,    Sees half the business in a wicked way,     On which three single hours of moonshine smile--      And then she looks so modest all the while!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just as we do with Lleyton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,  Possessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,  Possessing all things with intensest love,   O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -Groucho Marx.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41097]]></link><description><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6945]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One size does not fit all in any regulation. When it is clear that the smaller companies are bearing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30803]]></link><description><![CDATA[One size does not fit all in any regulation. When it is clear that the smaller companies are bearing a larger part of the burden, then it really has to be addressed. I don't think that was the intent of the legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a truck and forced to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61766</guid></item></channel></rss>