<?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[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9539]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5351]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's only as old as the woman he feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63494]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's only as old as the woman he feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665]]></link><description><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which can never fade;  How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name, And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made, While mortal love doth all the title gain!  Which siding with invention, they together  Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain (Thy workmanship), and give thee share in neither. Wit fancies beauty, beauty raiseth wit:  The world is theirs; they two play out the game,  Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise? only a scarf or glove  Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53157]]></link><description><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the Atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins -- the way to madness of the brain and despair of the heart... Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28500]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23673]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we say is, if you're not the first vehicle there then you're not going to be the first person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37032]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we say is, if you're not the first vehicle there then you're not going to be the first person to report it. It's already reported.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a blessing and love is a gift. Do not let it go easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a blessing and love is a gift. Do not let it go easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46083]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be - Please God -- where there is no more sea    Nor barren wilderness. Heaven overarches you and me,   And all earth's gardens and her braves.  Look up with me, until we see  The day break and the shadows flee.  What though to-night wrecks you and me,     If so to-morrow saves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that God the Son could not, absolutely speaking, have become incarnate by a non-virginal conception, any more than I should wish to deny that God might, absolutely speaking, have redeemed mankind without becoming incarnate at all; it is always unwise to place limits to the power of God. What we can see is that both an incarnation and a virginal conception were thoroughly appropriate to the needs and circumstances of the case and were more "natural", in the sense of more appropriate, than the alternatives... In practice, denial of the virginal conception or inability to see its relevance almost always goes with an inadequate understanding of the Incarnation and of the Christian religion in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   If you wanted a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   If you wanted a label for us, would you find a better than a Sadducean Age? We also are not worrying about immortality, hardly believe in it, or at least are not sure; we, too, have limited ourselves to this dust-speck of time, leaving unclaimed the vast inheritance beyond of which Christ told us; we, too, are putting all our zeal and passion and enthusiasm into things of this earth here, quite sure that that is the only road to progress, and that this everlasting chatter about the soul is quite beside the point. And they are all so earnest and so certain, work so hard, are animated often by such lofty motives, are so sure that there is really no manner of need for Christ: that given this, and this, and this, each of them pushing forward his particular panacea -- the world will manage very well; that to talk about Christ, and changing people's hearts, and making us new creatures, is merely to lose precious time and wander from the practical into vague day-dreaming of which nothing comes. And year by year their voices grow a little harder, and they eye Christ more and more askance, feel sourly that He is a bit of a nuisance and a stumbling-block to progress, keeping people quiet who should not be quiet, lulling them with these dim, immaterial, fantastic, spiritual hopes of His which they think have no body, and can not have. Once more the whisper grows, "Were He not far better away?" Meantime we can ignore Him, they say; and they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've wanted to be in the Pittsburgh metro area for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've wanted to be in the Pittsburgh metro area for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1939]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I told the British newspaper is that during a questioning session, Tariq Aziz was asked about who in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29823]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I told the British newspaper is that during a questioning session, Tariq Aziz was asked about who in Iraq took sovereign decisions like declaring war, suppressing a revolt or a civil mutiny,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25783</guid></item></channel></rss>