<?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[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their pure breath sanctifies the air,    As its fragrance fills the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48993]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when people boarded those trains. It's another way of telling the story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple the sails, and so perfumed that   The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,    Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made     The water which they beat to follow faster,      As amorous of their strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1219]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to pull everyone through. Everyone worked really hard today but that stuff (errors) is going to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to pull everyone through. Everyone worked really hard today but that stuff (errors) is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is really an un-Christian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian, love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what-not: it was the work of love which was his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61224]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/386]]></link><description><![CDATA[My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his guru Yogananda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies,  I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries,  The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things,  And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings  I know that God is good!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37362]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark of the 3.1-mile 5K), ... When you hit (the bottom of the hill) you've got to go, or you're going to lose time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66675]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31633]]></link><description><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside our boarders. We haven't even finished one war and many already see the potential need for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there;  Temple, mountain, monument, spire;   Ships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there;  Temple, mountain, monument, spire;   Ships rigged out with sails of fire,    And blown by the evening air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a paradise   If thou wert there, if thou were there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65142]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12801]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right   To general Nature's deep delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55823]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54178</guid></item></channel></rss>