<?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[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could be bought by one of the floor-based markets, or an equity market or a futures market, with a big market cap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly   Dipping into the flowers of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in the corner that we may not be playing hockey. And that scares me more then anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.  A golden mind stoops not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17141]]></link><description><![CDATA[This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;   I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;  I love my Rich, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;  I love my Rich, and I admit   That they are very good to me.    Succor the poor, my sisters,--I     While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health      Will strive to share and mollify       The trials of abounding wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop  To hang a doubt on--or woe upon thy life!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3127]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood alone moves the wheels of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood alone moves the wheels of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself  From top of honor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself  From top of honor to disgrace's feet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252]]></link><description><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17432]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth   No more upon it than 'twas worth;    But as he got it freely, so     He spent it frank and freely too:      For saints themselves will sometimes be,       Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13918]]></link><description><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where English minds and manners may be found,   Shall be constrained to love thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20160</guid></item></channel></rss>