<?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[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51546]]></link><description><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb, If I were a Wise Man,  I would do my part, -- But what I can, I give Him,  Give my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to go down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of war and devastation, we are starting from nothing basically. It will take a long time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40052]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of war and devastation, we are starting from nothing basically. It will take a long time for us to be fully self-sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought;  Every aster in my hand   Goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought;  Every aster in my hand   Goes home loaded with a thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  [John Bunyan] had to live through that obscure night -- "wide, vast, and lonely" -- which fell upon St. John of the Cross before; like him, he knew that grace would enter "the dark caverns where the senses live". In the meantime, Bunyan tossed to and fro, as it were between heaven and hell. It has been said that he paints too dark a picture of his moral condition when a young man, that he exaggerates his wickedness at this period, and afterwards wrestles with phantoms of his vivid imagination. But spiritual sins, though not so obvious as those that are sensual, may be just as real; and Bunyan's intensity of feeling and expression arose from the intensity of his spiritual nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they amend the (Mine Safety) Act, I don't see how they are going to differentiate between the different categories of mining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers lead but to the renewal of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers lead but to the renewal of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21354]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4373]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63096]]></link><description><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17682]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63489]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;   I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,    Until I find a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30897]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28192]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get after your man,' and that's what happened. We were able to knock the ball loose and go down and score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a groan but God has harkened,   Counting their cruelties one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56426]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56426</guid></item></channel></rss>