<?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 universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49121]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51783]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed.  Methinks it is like a weasel.   It is backed like a weasel.    Or like a whale.     Very like a whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38083]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb, If I were a Wise Man,  I would do my part, -- But what I can, I give Him,  Give my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8951]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22945]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089</guid></item></channel></rss>