<?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[When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,  Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,  Because the one so near the other is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of our defencemen here in the first couple of games have been just outstanding, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of our defencemen here in the first couple of games have been just outstanding,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,   How justly doth a lie    Draw on its head despair!     Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers      The boldest and the strongest still was I.       Although so fair,        Therefore from Heaven         A stronger perfume unto me was given          Than any blossom of the summer hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2190]]></link><description><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really feel good. We came here planning on winning five games so we have passed the first two steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35394]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really feel good. We came here planning on winning five games so we have passed the first two steps and played pretty well. We have to be ready to play tomorrow and can battle anyone if we are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends!  She gratefully receives what Heav'n ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends!  She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent,   And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect forhimself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refusedto move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid hiswhip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perversedull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to anAss. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representative, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representative, a symbol, a personification, a prototype, a figure, a model, an exemplar for something else. The nominal Christian pays homage to something about Jesus, rather than worshipping the man himself. For this reason, nominal Christians will extol the moral teachings of Jesus, the faith of Jesus, the personality of Jesus, the compassion of Jesus, the world view of Jesus, the self-understanding of Jesus, etc. None of these worships Jesus as the Christ, but only something about him, something peripheral to the actual flesh-and-blood man. This is why when the almighty God came into the world in Jesus, he came as the lowest of the low, as weakness itself, as a complete and utter nothing, in order that men would be forced into the crucial decision about him alone and would not be able to worship anything about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55269]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398]]></link><description><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, uncertain times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?  Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,   If he kneel not before the same altar with me?    From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,     To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?      No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try       Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21331</guid></item></channel></rss>