<?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[To love another person is to see the face of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love another person is to see the face of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born.  Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs  My blood is liquid flame! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs  My blood is liquid flame!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals, and if not this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals, and if not this case, then what case would it ever be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we apples swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2950]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we apples swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last season, I think that's when Drew really got interested in playing college sports, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31887]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last season, I think that's when Drew really got interested in playing college sports,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3162]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089]]></link><description><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ours too long and to rediscover the real Christ, the Christ of the prophets and the martyrs and the confessors, the Christ who is not only the lover of souls but also master, a monarch with demands to make in industry, in finance, in education, in the arts, in marriage, in the home; the Christ who is teacher of a social ideology which has eternal validity; the Christ who cries aloud with convincing force, "He who would save his life will lose it; only he who is willing to lose his life, can find it.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate;   Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;    For nothing canst thou to damnation add     Greater than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;  Be not too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess   That the defect; better the more than less;    Better like Hector in the field to die,     Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so happy today. It's a victory for the women's rights movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36582]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so happy today. It's a victory for the women's rights movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race. There is something more true in his denunciation of idolatry as sin than in our denial that it is possible for a man to worship an idol, or in our suggestion that all idolatry is only a road to spiritual worship of the one true God... One day, I think, we shall return to these stern doctrines, realizing in them a truth more profound than we now know, and then we shall preach them with conviction, and, being convinced ourselves, we shall convince others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7675</guid></item></channel></rss>