<?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[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   The manifestation of God in the flesh, the Evangelists set down by way of a history; the Apostle goes farther, and finds a deep mystery in it, and for a mystery commends it to us. Now there is difference between these two--many, this for one: that a man may hear a story and never wash his hands; but a mystery requires both the hands and the heart to be clean that shall deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53604]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhibitors have really outdone themselves this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhibitors have really outdone themselves this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19608]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47504]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't sell it directly to them. Hopefully they will be the only bidder and it will be pretty clean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't sell it directly to them. Hopefully they will be the only bidder and it will be pretty clean, but if there is another bidder we will have to make a decision then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses by,   And softly stooped to kiss the stream,    The pretty stream, the flattered stream,     The shy, yet unreluctant stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and leveraged through integration using HR-XML's open standards, ... More and more, HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2095]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18031]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, we shall never be united. If God does not will that we should be united, what can our devices for producing it avail? Whereas, if we believe that it is His will, and that we are fighting against His will by our divisions, we have a right confidently to hope that He will at last bring us to repentance, or, if we do not repent, will accomplish His purposes in spite of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910]]></link><description><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow   Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,    And knew them how to order without blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59966]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59966</guid></item></channel></rss>