<?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[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise   As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand:    A thousand years their cloudy wings expand     Around me, and a dying Glory smiles      O'er the far times, when many a subject land       Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines,        Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the penn'worth of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the penn'worth of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This tournament is my chance for me to show I deserve a starting spot and I will try and take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38513]]></link><description><![CDATA[This tournament is my chance for me to show I deserve a starting spot and I will try and take it with both hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him that Lazarus had anything to do with him. He was simply unaware of his presence, or, if he was aware of it, he had no sense of responsibility for it... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a group in society, we've simply been ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28523]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,   We are enforced to farm our royal realm,    The revenue whereof shall furnish us     For our affairs in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46625]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55639]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell a tale to a dead man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51763]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell a tale to a dead man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and sin ceased to be distinguished in Israel, compassion induced Him to appoint judges again. If these are gifted with heroic qualities, to vanquish the oppressors of Israel, it is nevertheless not this heroism that forms their principal characteristic. That consists in judging. They restore... the authority of the law. For this reason, God raises up judges, not princes. The title sets forth both their work and the occasion of their appointment. Israel is free and powerful when its law is observed throughout the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20394]]></link><description><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I disagree that this is taking rights away from people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I disagree that this is taking rights away from people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50793]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously I'm very happy to start the race on the front row. I think I had a good qualifying session ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I'm very happy to start the race on the front row. I think I had a good qualifying session and I really pushed hard, especially in the last five laps when Bill Riley was telling me to push harder to avoid ending up in the back. I just kept pushing and pushing and finally got a good lap together. And it was my best. I don't think I could have done any better than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58950</guid></item></channel></rss>