<?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[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusionof knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusionof knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[anonymous fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43860]]></link><description><![CDATA[anonymous fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,  Redeem truth from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,  Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier,   Chase brave employments with a naked sword    Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have     If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family or friends, on the Lord's day in the morning, was that of the primitive Christians: "The Lord is risen, He is risen indeed"; making it his chief business on that day to celebrate the memory of Christ's resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29629]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what caused it. When you get in a game like this, you can't turn the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her 'one day at a time.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her 'one day at a time.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're taking whatever they can find. Granted, there are a lot of memories associated with the place. But it is unsafe and it is privately owned, no matter what they think. The fences are up for a reason. It's awful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15801]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55521]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean;   And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.    (Chorus:) Let the toast pass,--     Drink to the lass,      I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[bring stability to the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28273]]></link><description><![CDATA[bring stability to the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;  Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;   Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10381]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main thing is to make history, not to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main thing is to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again.  If at first you don't succeed,   Try, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59690]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again.  If at first you don't succeed,   Try, try, try again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58513]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58513</guid></item></channel></rss>