<?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[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.  ... Richard Chevenix Trench  April 8, 2000 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27487]]></link><description><![CDATA[...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out with a lot of energy in the third quarter and got a lot of buckets off our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32371]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out with a lot of energy in the third quarter and got a lot of buckets off our defense. J.B. and James had big quarters, but we got some great defensive play from guys like Charles Davidson and Paul Collamer. We forced a lot of turnovers in that quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will always be a special place. I'm looking forward to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will always be a special place. I'm looking forward to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22606]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the Street does not fully appreciate the risks associated with the company's two lead programs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41854]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the Street does not fully appreciate the risks associated with the company's two lead programs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a disease, if you catch it then there is no cure for it, just like cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a disease, if you catch it then there is no cure for it, just like cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65583]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28747]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52172</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[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deal legitimizes India as a nuclear power and Pakistan of course is getting nothing of the sort. It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deal legitimizes India as a nuclear power and Pakistan of course is getting nothing of the sort. It has left Pakistan feeling exposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (the funds) can be used for one piece of art or for artwork throughout the 11 acres, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (the funds) can be used for one piece of art or for artwork throughout the 11 acres,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? (Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring  That she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17786]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Portia:) A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? (Gratiano:) About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring  That she did give me, whose posy was   For all the world like cutler's poetry    Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22358]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back onmy bass playing abilities.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure care's an enemy to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure care's an enemy to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35812</guid></item></channel></rss>