<?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[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></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/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was "rosy-fingered"; to Shakespeare, it was "in russet mantle clad"; to Housman, "the ship of sunrise burning". The scientist can explain exactly why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has changed over the centuries, or that any one of these percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our knowledge of any aspect of Creation?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nucleus is there on the line, but the depth is a major, major question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39328]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  [Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which in the East was performed by the complete immersion of the believer in water. "We were buried with Christ through our baptism (and so entered) into a state of death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the splendor of the Father, we too might walk in the newness which belongs to (real) life." To the rite as such Paul did not attach overwhelming importance. "Christ", he says, "did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel."  Paul recognized in the idea a most suggestive figure for the change wrought by faith in Christ. He found it necessary to guard against the crude sacramentalism which found in the mere physical process, as such, the actual impartation of new life, quite apart from anything taking place in the realm of inward experience. The Israelites in the wilderness ... received baptism in the Red Sea and in the cloud which overshadowed them; and yet they were disobedient, "the majority of them God did not choose," and they perished miserably. The inference is plain. No sacramental act achieves anything unless it is an outward symbol of what really happens inwardly in experience. The test of that is the reality of the new life as exhibited in its ethical consequences. "How can we who are dead to sin live any longer in sin?" If baptism is a real dying and rising again, then it is indeed a profound revolution in the personal life, a revolution which is simply bound to show itself in a new moral character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33811]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of water that was on that floor. We pumped 85,000 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</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[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are as free as and free in exactly the sense that our neuronal processes are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are as free as and free in exactly the sense that our neuronal processes are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56039]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14665]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is probably the best group of players in my years here. If we can hold it together emotionally and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37626]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is probably the best group of players in my years here. If we can hold it together emotionally and focus on what is in front of us, we should be a playoff team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59639]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item></channel></rss>