<?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[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23116]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Lord, forgive the misprints! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39101]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25300]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19908]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746]]></link><description><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cameron] was dazed, kind of not really there, ... I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41860]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cameron] was dazed, kind of not really there, ... I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is ever in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is ever in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses for it, and use it at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our kids are ready to concede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's another tough loss. These three-point losses are killing me. We just didn't make the plays when we needed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's another tough loss. These three-point losses are killing me. We just didn't make the plays when we needed to and they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8051]]></link><description><![CDATA["When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He find it in us? What fruits of faith have we to show? Do we look upon this life only as a short passage to a better? Do we believe that we must suffer with Jesus Christ before we can reign with Him? Do we consider this world as a deceitful appearance, and death as the entrance to true happiness? Do we live by faith? Does it animate us? Do we relish the eternal truths it presents us with? Are we as careful to nourish our souls with those truths as to maintain our bodies with proper diet? Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgements by it?  Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item></channel></rss>