<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60049]]></link><description><![CDATA[People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in the industry. If Cisco wants to go after the small end of this market, in particular, it realizes it has to move forward with this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai that in the sight of God there is indeed a difference between the sacred and the profane, but there is no difference between the spiritual and the social.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that she's been patient enough and not kind of succumb to what a lot of coaches succumb to. Which is at the first sign of success they jump up to what they think is a greener pasture -- a big-time job somewhere else. But she's been patient enough to kind of build something that's going to be long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things soon find a purchaser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things soon find a purchaser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51863]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.  ... Henry Vaughan April 24, 2000 Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48398]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what we are looking for from everyone. Constant improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42128]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what we are looking for from everyone. Constant improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't know life, how can we know death? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't know life, how can we know death?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45832]]></link><description><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The MiserA miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The MiserA miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it. The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52213]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But me no buts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But me no buts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise counsell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is sometimes saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is sometimes saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song alone,   The deeds of great and noble souls.    [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,     Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;      Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann       Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5555]]></link><description><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the concepts of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another places the truth of the case in dispute in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33601]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7385]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice.  "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers."  "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?"  "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7385</guid></item></channel></rss>