<?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[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking parts of the Day of Atonement is that of the scapegoat. The high priest placed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6372]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking parts of the Day of Atonement is that of the scapegoat. The high priest placed both his hands on the head of a goat and confessed all the sins of the nation. Then the goat carrying the sins of the people is sent off into the wilderness. But it is not just a piece of history!   There is in the modern world a quest for scapegoats though with one enormous difference. Whenever there is an accident or a tragedy, there is a search for someone to blame. Often all the modern means of communication join in; accusations, resignations, demands for compensation and the rest. If a guilty person is found, then an orgy of condemnation and vilification. Rarely a sense of, there but for the grace of God go I. Instead of dealing gently with one another's failure because of our own vulnerability to criticism, there is the presumption that we are in a fit condition to judge and to condemn.   The enormous difference? The original scapegoat followed a confession of the sins of the people. There was no blaming of someone else, but an admission of guilt and a quest for the forgiveness of God. The goat wasn't hated, but was a dramatic picture of the carrying away sins. It was the very opposite of a selfrighteous victimisation of someone else.   Ever since 200 A.D., Christians have seen the scapegoat as a picture of Jesus. As it was led out to die in the wilderness bearing the sins of the people, so he was crucified outside Jerusalem for our sins. We are to be both forgiven and forgiving people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34794]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64979]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47633]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39274]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue about it, saying 'I had to do it last year'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appreciate what you have before it becomes what you had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciate what you have before it becomes what you had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those incemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or band,   For dame that loves to rove?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Similar problems are faced in every household, but this is on a much larger scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Similar problems are faced in every household, but this is on a much larger scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short but a smile takes barely a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short but a smile takes barely a second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55657</guid></item></channel></rss>