<?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 Ass and the MuleA muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the MuleA muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both well laden. The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear. He entreated his companion to relieve him of a small portion, that he might carry home the rest; but the Mule paid no attention to the request. The Ass shortly afterwards fell down dead under his burden. Not knowing what else to do in so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him. The Mule, groaning beneath his heavy burden, said to himself: I am treated according to my deserts. If I had only been willing to assist the Ass a little in his need, I should not now be bearing, together with his burden, himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction. Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child with her cloth, cover thou him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled thislight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole game is about throwing and catching. The teams that do that the best comes out on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole game is about throwing and catching. The teams that do that the best comes out on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not my area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not my area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60121]]></link><description><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a little bit last week and maybe some of the boys were thinking they were only one game away from the play-offs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indu'd With sanctity of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indu'd With sanctity of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're particularly concerned with the lack of disclosure in the '50s, '60s and '70s around the potential damages of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're particularly concerned with the lack of disclosure in the '50s, '60s and '70s around the potential damages of this product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9119]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that hard to move anything you do on paper to a computer. The fundamental question is whether that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that hard to move anything you do on paper to a computer. The fundamental question is whether that's a really innovative thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39732]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27611]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can forgive yourself a great deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34237]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can forgive yourself a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65841]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48086]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first born--ah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44527</guid></item></channel></rss>