<?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[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   The Hebrew religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   The Hebrew religion was an unfinished religion. That is one of the best proofs of its divine inspiration. The prophets had the forward look [and] great things were yet to come. As one of the most daring expressed it, the old and hallowed covenant, made by God at the Exodus, would be superseded by a new and higher relation; God would write his law into the hearts of the people; the old drill in outward statutes would disappear, for all men would know God by an inward experience of forgiveness and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13517]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned -- although they have been bestowed by God himself, the author of nature. To this I reply that we do not condemn those inclinations which God so engraved upon the character of man at his first creation, that they were eradicable only with humanity itself; but only those bold and unbridled impulses which contend against God's control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51045]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3429]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep seeing them go up, up, up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep seeing them go up, up, up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for next year. But we are not getting free agents if it's not the right fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38979]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of Super Bowl ad time, ... This decision sets a puzzling precedent by failing to hold all licensees responsible for the material broadcast over their stations. Why announce such a thorough investigation, if we just let some of the stations that broadcast this material completely off the hook?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good health—right living is the secret. Money can't buy happiness—happiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the trees—these are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peace—peace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good character—good character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53315]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main reason for doing it now ... had more to do with the players. This is a great group. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main reason for doing it now ... had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To greed, all nature is insufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To greed, all nature is insufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45343]]></link><description><![CDATA[O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's not over yet. Everybody's like, 'Oh! Take my studded tires off!' And I'm like, 'I wouldn't take studded tires off quite yet,' and here it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40602</guid></item></channel></rss>