<?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[There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhere -- all the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing … ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing …]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. All the beauty and truth which I had discovered had come to me as a reflection of his beauty, but I had kept my eyes fixed on the reflection and was always looking at myself. But God had brought me to the point at which I was compelled to turn away from the reflection, both of myself and of the world which could only mirror my own image. During that night the mirror had been broken, and I had felt abandoned because I could no longer gaze upon the image of my own reason and the finite world which it knew. God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a long-term process, ... I underscore the fact that it is incremental. I don't want to get people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40974]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a long-term process, ... I underscore the fact that it is incremental. I don't want to get people's expectations too high; it's a long road...No one thing is going to turn your downtown around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran out of PampersHe's buyin clothes for his new girland the baby just ran out of medicineYou ask for money for the baby?The daddy just ran out the doorGIRL! I can't believe him(I can..)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through the programming. The viewer learns through their experiences about what they're learning. Yes, it's entertainment, but it's really a program about going into the world of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33919]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ad lib a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65912]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid,  With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid,  With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,   To deck the ground where thou art laid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just at the point where we cannot meet the needs of our citizens right now, particularly water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item></channel></rss>