<?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[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,   Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,    Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,     You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506]]></link><description><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left him not, till penitence had won   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to continue this cold pattern into March. The real question is how far into March this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to continue this cold pattern into March. The real question is how far into March this is going to continue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13788]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary cause of the [denominational] divisions is the institutionalism and organisationalism of the churches, which, without vivifying the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary cause of the [denominational] divisions is the institutionalism and organisationalism of the churches, which, without vivifying the life of the believers in them, smothers or drives it out of the ekklesia, and makes [the churches] merely dead institutions. Christians who really have life in Christ cannot exist within such a corpse and will at last have to come out of it. But in almost all cases, those who have come out of dead institutions want to have in their place another institution or other rituals and ceremonies, only repeating the same error. Instead of turning to Christ Himself as their center, they again seek to find fellowship and spiritual security on the very same basis that failed, not realizing that it is the institution that is killing, instead of producing, life in Christ. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37954]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's overreaching on many levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's overreaching on many levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we allow gangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we allow gangs in this community to gain a foothold on our streets. Our response will be swift, coordinated and certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10130]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36501]]></link><description><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pampered menial drove me from the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pampered menial drove me from the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687]]></link><description><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53272]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the skies,   To him are open paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. [Matthew].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greedy father has thieves for children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greedy father has thieves for children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item></channel></rss>