<?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[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23450]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of meats bringeth sickness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of meats bringeth sickness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful, wonderful this death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful, wonderful this death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37237]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3408]]></link><description><![CDATA[After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent,  An early but enduring monument, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent,  An early but enduring monument,   Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song    In sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47290]]></link><description><![CDATA[God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58302]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22131]]></link><description><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25791]]></link><description><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some guys who are injured that I have to prove myself against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some guys who are injured that I have to prove myself against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting used to. The power was there, and every red light was a temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either team can win on any given night. It depends on who's hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either team can win on any given night. It depends on who's hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing lasts but the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing lasts but the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49668</guid></item></channel></rss>