<?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[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18560]]></link><description><![CDATA[My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our primary mission is to commercial air service and to support general aviation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our primary mission is to commercial air service and to support general aviation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought there was gonna be one more solution, one more last minute investor, just one more little nibble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought there was gonna be one more solution, one more last minute investor, just one more little nibble. It wasn't meant to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des tyrans.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed culture contributes to [air pollution] in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63212]]></link><description><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love little children too but I don't cut offtheir heads and stick them in vases.http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love little children too but I don't cut offtheir heads and stick them in vases.http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47275]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7321]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God... I prejudice not an external test and call, which was at first and shall be again in force at the resurrection of the churches, ... but in the present state of things I cannot but be humbly bold to say that I know no other true sender but the most Holy Spirit. And when He sends, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5345]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item></channel></rss>