<?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[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62435]]></link><description><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group.' 'Yeah,' I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14851]]></link><description><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63822]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hurts only once but a lie hurts every time you remember it...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments dwell above thee:    Yet who would live, and live without thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: "Friend, wherefore art thou come?" Just as if He had said: "Thou hatest me, and art mine enemy, yet I love thee, and am thy friend." ... As though God in human nature were saying: "I am pure, simple goodness, and therefore I cannot will or desire or rejoice in, or do or give anything but goodness. If I am to reward thee for thy evil and wickedness, I must do it with goodness, for I am and have nothing else."   ... Theologia Germanica  June 7, 2002   Some will not believe in miracles because the laws of nature work uniformly. But their uniformity is undisturbed by human operations; the will of man wields, without cancelling, these mighty forces which surround us: and why may not the will of God do the same?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43194]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa    Juxta crucem lacrymosa     Que pendebat Filius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44640]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of the market will continue through this quarter easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60266]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42183]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.  Where'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.  Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise,   And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46322]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No season now for calm, familiar talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58613]]></link><description><![CDATA[No season now for calm, familiar talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58613</guid></item></channel></rss>