<?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[Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give her props. Everything I need to see done is channeled through her. It's a business relationship. If it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give her props. Everything I need to see done is channeled through her. It's a business relationship. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't where we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   Pierce that in you, that was the cause of Christ's piercing; that is sin and the lusts thereof. Look and be pierced with love of Him, who so loved you, that He gave Himself in this sort to be pierced for you. Look upon Him, and His heart opened, and from that gate of hope promise yourself, and look for all manner of things that good are: the deliverance from the evil of our present misery [and] the restoring to the good of our primitive felicity. Look back upon it with some pain; for one way or other, look upon it we must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8652]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God and sinners reconciled.!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47407]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50430]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44376]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass  That every braggart shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass  That every braggart shall be found an ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2644]]></link><description><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55210]]></link><description><![CDATA[God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19037]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897]]></link><description><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the fight between you and the world, back the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the fight between you and the world, back the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader follows in front ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader follows in front]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257</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[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51863]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24719]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23950</guid></item></channel></rss>