<?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[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63227]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been talking about a garage sale and we talked about what we could send them, ... Then we thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been talking about a garage sale and we talked about what we could send them, ... Then we thought why not have a garage sale and just send them the money, it would be faster and they could buy whatever they really need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32028]]></link><description><![CDATA[At one point there were four sophomores and a junior in there at a crucial point and they played three minutes of good basketball. I tried to do that so they (the starters) could see that patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to have three pitchers and I have no doubt she'll be there. Pitching is tough and she's done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to have three pitchers and I have no doubt she'll be there. Pitching is tough and she's done it at this level. At the next level, they know she'll get better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17236]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only problem facing you in life is the belief inseparation from your Source. Solve that one and all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only problem facing you in life is the belief inseparation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones willvanish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things have their place, knew wee how to place them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49109]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream the impossible dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream the impossible dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29535]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best mirrour is an old friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best mirrour is an old friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic principle in the interpretation of the Bible is that one must first ask what a given Scripture was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7629]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic principle in the interpretation of the Bible is that one must first ask what a given Scripture was intended to mean to the people for whom it was originally written; only then is the interpreter free to ask what meaning it has for Christians today. Failure to ask this primary question and to investigate the historical setting of Scripture have prevented many Christians from coming to a correct understanding of some parts of the Bible. Nowhere is this more true than in respect to the last book in the Bible. Here, there has been a singular lack of appreciation for the historical background of the book; the book has been interpreted as if it were primarily written for the day in which the expositor lives (which is usually thought to be the end time), rather than in terms of what it meant to the first-century Christians of the Roman province of Asia for whom it was originally written. This has resulted in all sorts of grotesque and fantastic conclusions of which the author of the Revelation and its early recipients never would have dreamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, they still weren't eating them. It seemed like such a waste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65973]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473]]></link><description><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   That maggots of corrupted texts,    That first run all religion down,     And after every swarm its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Court recognized that just like shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Court recognized that just like shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for all practical purposes, like municipal entities unto themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64964</guid></item></channel></rss>