<?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[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their stock to keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13228]]></link><description><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants to keep the player, ... When you have all those things working for you, you can figure out a way to make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign  A melancholy damp of cold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50652]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign  A melancholy damp of cold and dry   To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume    The balm of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 million people marched against the war on 5 continentsin the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45971]]></link><description><![CDATA[10 million people marched against the war on 5 continentsin the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26325]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenesare to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily,enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as afitting climax for the journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;  Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;  Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38936]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many a happy accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many a happy accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  [Eternal life is] naught else than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  [Eternal life is] naught else than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. With Thee, to behold is to give life: It is unceasingly to impart sweetest love of Thee; 'tis to inflame me to love of Thee by love's imparting, and to feed me by inflaming, and by feeding to kindle my yearning, and by kindling to make me drink of the dew of gladness, and by drinking to infuse in me a fountain of life, and by infusing to make it increase and endure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes you get in and sometimes you don't. But the judges do the best they can. If they saw something that kept me out of the top three, I have to respect that and keep working on my riding. All I can do is improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item></channel></rss>