<?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[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32886]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialization is for insects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialization is for insects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14206]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,  Where high-born men were proud to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5513]]></link><description><![CDATA[How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,  Where high-born men were proud to wait--   Where Beauty watched to imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63010]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder better than the eel   Because his painted skin contents the eye?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so amazing, if I can use that word, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so amazing, if I can use that word,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Gospel used to be presented as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Gospel used to be presented as an appeal to believe in the Saviour who "did it all for me long ago", and then retired to a remote heaven where He receives the homage of believers till He comes again to inaugurate the Millennium. The mind of our generation, having little comprehension or taste for such a message, is usually content to try to discover "the Jesus of history", conceived as a human example and teacher of a distant past. Meanwhile, there exists always alongside all forms of religious belief the great tradition of mystical experience. The mystic knows that, whatever be the truth about an historic act or person, there is a Spirit dwelling in man. In our time, even natural science abates its arrogant denials and admits the possibility of such immanence... The weak point of mysticism, as seen at least by a matter-of-fact person, is that it is apt to be so nebulous ethically. What the Immanent is, those who claim most traffic with It can often least tell us. Is It a power making for righteousness, or is It a higher synthesis of good and evil? Or is It not a moral -- that is to say, not a personal Being at all?... The raising of these questions is not intended to throw any doubt upon the validity of mystical experience as such; but we have a right to ask what content is given in the experience. Paul was a mystic, but all his mystical experience had a personal object. It was Jesus Christ, a real, living person --historic, yet not of the past alone; divine, yet not alien from humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar   Twined amorous round the raptures scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile   That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10820]]></link><description><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the church's response to this current ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the church's response to this current situation will reveal, better than anything else, our faith in God -- or our faithlessness. If we churchmen interpret such pervasive doubt as a threat, then we will do as the church has done so often in the past: we will substitute the church for God, and make our church-centered activities into an ersatz kingdom of God. Our faithlessness will be evident in the easy paraphrase of the hard truth of the gospel, and in the lapse from the critical loyalty that God requires of us, into the vague and corrupting sentimentalism that has so marred American Protestantism. Or the church can interpret the present religious situation as a promise, as God's recall of His people to a new reformation. Our faithfulness to God-in-Christ will be manifest in the willingness to be honest with ourselves and with the gospel. Then we may view the church, not as an end in itself, but as the point of departure into the world for which the Son of God died. Which will it be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13541]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die Leut'! Sind sonst wackre Bruder  Aber das denkt, wie ein Seifensieder.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel no breezenor are they touched by a hand which frees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item></channel></rss>