<?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[True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66765]]></link><description><![CDATA[True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're illegal, you have to work and go to your house. You can't make trouble because if the police ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29095]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're illegal, you have to work and go to your house. You can't make trouble because if the police catch you, you will be deported.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to die in a dignified manner, with my family all around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to die in a dignified manner, with my family all around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21214]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, now you are too flat, And mar the concord with too harsh a descant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, now you are too flat, And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8877]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2689]]></link><description><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Morning breaks upon the tomb, Jesus scatters all its gloom. Day of triumph through the skies-- See the glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Morning breaks upon the tomb, Jesus scatters all its gloom. Day of triumph through the skies-- See the glorious Saviour rise. Christians! Dry your flowing tears, Chase those unbelieving fears; Look on his deserted grave, Doubt no more his power to save. Ye who are of death afraid, Triumph in the scattered shade: Drive your anxious cares away, See the place where Jesus lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33878]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,   As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12545]]></link><description><![CDATA[False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak in courage is strong in cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10844</guid></item></channel></rss>