<?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[All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20308]]></link><description><![CDATA[All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,   And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;    Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,     Which spongy April at thy hest betrims      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,       Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,        Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;         And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,          Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,           Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,            Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,             Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,              To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.               Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10164]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught  In what thou eat'st and drink'st. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught  In what thou eat'st and drink'st.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35152]]></link><description><![CDATA[like an aging Pete Townshend kind of guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether or not you write well, write bravely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether or not you write well, write bravely]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. Those who leave the county should go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. Those who leave the county should go north and east, such as to Hattiesburg, Laurel or Meridian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,    Where the woodbine alternating,     Scent the dewy way;      Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,       Waiting for the May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all about creating buzz, ... We have the course, the accommodations, the resort-type area . . . This news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35345]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all about creating buzz, ... We have the course, the accommodations, the resort-type area . . . This news is just a step closer to really making this marathon shine as an international event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developers can start working with the code. Before UIMA, there was no easy way to (collaborate on) search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Developers can start working with the code. Before UIMA, there was no easy way to (collaborate on) search.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally only Christianity has taught us the true place and function of suffering. The Stoics tried the hopeless little game of denying its objective reality, or of declaring it a good in itself (which it never is); and the Pessimists attempted to revel in it, as a food to their melancholy, and as something that can no more be transformed than it can be avoided or explained. But Christ came, and He did not really explain it; He did far more: He met it, willed it, transformed it; and He taught us to do all this -- or, rather, He Himself does it within us, if we do not hinder the all-healing hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54093]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  That is light grieving!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61208]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61208</guid></item></channel></rss>