<?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[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598]]></link><description><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We decided our goal was to shift from pure pursuit of market share to pursuit of profitability, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We decided our goal was to shift from pure pursuit of market share to pursuit of profitability,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in a situation where I am nervous or trying to live up to coach Emmer. I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in a situation where I am nervous or trying to live up to coach Emmer. I hope to honor the tradition by giving everything that I have to my guys and to the recruiting process to bring in the best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is doing and accomplishing a lot of things that haven't been done in his family before. Everything he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32150]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is doing and accomplishing a lot of things that haven't been done in his family before. Everything he does is an obstacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found there are many areas that already have conservation efforts in place and do not need to be designated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found there are many areas that already have conservation efforts in place and do not need to be designated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take a lot of pride in that. We have a big veteran group here. We've been working hard since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take a lot of pride in that. We have a big veteran group here. We've been working hard since Day 1 of training camp, and we are coming together. We are focusing on what needs to be done, and a lot of us understand that every week. We try to do our best to keep the old man on his feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   To hold your truth, to believe it with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   To hold your truth, to believe it with all your heart, to work with all your might, first to make it real to yourself and then to show its preciousness to other men, and then -- not till then, but then -- to leave the questions of when and how and by whom it shall prevail to God: that is the true life of the believer. There is no feeble unconcern and indiscriminateness there, and neither is there any excited hatred of the creed, the doctrine, or the Church, which you feel wholly wrong. You have not fled out of the furnace of bigotry to freeze on the open and desolate plains of indifference. You believe and yet you have no wish to persecute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29522]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was best for me. I came here, my grades improved, everything just turned around completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30485]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to do something now and we're like, 'OK, whatever, J.J.' Everybody respects him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to be as conservative as possible right now, focusing on growing things internally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33215]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to be as conservative as possible right now, focusing on growing things internally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is euphoric. There is no stopping the peso's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is euphoric. There is no stopping the peso's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36075]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not released from his commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're specifically looking for biking in Hawaii, we're easy to find. We're on the first page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're specifically looking for biking in Hawaii, we're easy to find. We're on the first page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out   At every joint and motive of her body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item></channel></rss>