<?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[Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16162]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother was upon her knees, awed by the knowledge that she was praying for them. And here and there in the New Testament, we blunder in on Christ and find Him on His knees; and, once at least, ere we can escape, cannot but overhear Him pleading our names. "Neither pray I for these alone," that is, for Peter and John and the rest, "but for those who will believe through them"-- that is, for you and me. Hush! the Lord Christ is praying for you! And what is it He asks for us? That we be given such a spirit of unity and brotherliness and Christlikeness that people, coming upon us, will look at us, and look again, and then from us to Jesus Christ, seeking the explanation of us there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30227]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss   Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, try Westminister, and view   Ten thousand, just as fit for him as you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37437]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went up a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Ignorance Thou art fall'n man's best friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Ignorance Thou art fall'n man's best friend!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring)  From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring)  From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint they bear;   So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11505]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have no trouble getting up for a school like Kentucky. The last couple of games we've been shaky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have no trouble getting up for a school like Kentucky. The last couple of games we've been shaky early in the game. [Today] we have to play 40 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a glide time coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51109]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a glide time coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18712]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27162]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right after the assault or an abortion service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich with the spoils of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich with the spoils of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles W. Mayo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58486]]></link><description><![CDATA[More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger,  A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth -- Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary,  Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary,  Safe to its home in Thy presence above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7431</guid></item></channel></rss>