<?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[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain,  So on the sea of life, alas!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain,  So on the sea of life, alas!   Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14130]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do it ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do it ourselves . . . We found a way to be really happy and this way we're able to do it on our own . . . it's exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21755]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid.  We two have talked our hearts out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid.  We two have talked our hearts out to the embers,   And now go hand in hand down to the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the Resurrection explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22514]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13599]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ... the unions and the special interests that listen to her and have them recognize they are destroying jobs and opportunities in the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5501]]></link><description><![CDATA[People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to say to this spiritual hunger, which is not assuaged by legalized abortion and homosexuality, solaced by contraception, or relieved by majority rule. Nor will it take comfort in the thought that God is dead, or that mankind has come of age, or even in ecumenical negotiations for writing off Papal Infallibility against the validity of Anglican Orders. The only means of satisfying it remains that bread of life which Jesus offered, with the promise that those who are of it should never hunger again. The promise stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11452]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19423]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is past politics; and politics present history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30055]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30055</guid></item></channel></rss>