<?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[You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30325]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29415]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60295]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45720]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia  Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55090]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's simply an educational site, then I don't see it as a huge threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's simply an educational site, then I don't see it as a huge threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2278]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts go out to the families of those little girls. It's a terrible, terrible tragedy. Whether you know the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts go out to the families of those little girls. It's a terrible, terrible tragedy. Whether you know the family or not, it affects the whole community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65447]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is in the hands of God. We know that if God wants, sooner or later Ahmed will be released.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31396]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33005]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalition of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalition of this national will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3104]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49252]]></link><description><![CDATA[For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In talking to the guys elected, several of them were emotional about it. Many of them said this would probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38784]]></link><description><![CDATA[In talking to the guys elected, several of them were emotional about it. Many of them said this would probably be the highest honor they would achieve in their careers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be holy, a means to the integration of character for those who cannot bear their conflicts. It is a statement of the divine intention for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49444</guid></item></channel></rss>