<?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[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself through all the veins   That the life-weary taker may fall dead,    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath     As violently as hasty powder fired      Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night of the Wolf, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night of the Wolf,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,   The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;    Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,     The chances have just begun      For the best jobs haven't been started,       The best work hasn't been done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41918]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode  Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height,   Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crude gained a lot last week and we are giving some of that back. The U.S. led a large attack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crude gained a lot last week and we are giving some of that back. The U.S. led a large attack in Iraq last week, one that wasn't unprecedented, but the media got a hold of it and the market reacted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tale in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57930]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tale in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;  Turn giddy and be holp by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51464]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;  Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;   One desperate grief cures with another's languish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40219]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the younger kids really look up to those seniors. I'll see them sometimes gather around them during practice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the younger kids really look up to those seniors. I'll see them sometimes gather around them during practice. Just the other day there were some throwers that I hadn't taught yet. They were picking things up and making corrections just from watching Donnie and Randall throw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a community, it's not a neighborhood, it's not everything a neighborhood should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a community, it's not a neighborhood, it's not everything a neighborhood should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  After all, Brethren, the whole end of Theology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  After all, Brethren, the whole end of Theology is love. It seems hard to realize that that is so, but so it is. If your theology does not make you more loving, it has not Christianized you and to that extent is not a Christian theology... All ecclesiasticism and all doctrinalizing are in order to form character, and the soul of character is love. Preach the truth in love, and for the development of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You basically should not throw a breaking ball, any type of breaking ball, including a slider, until you shave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37037]]></link><description><![CDATA[You basically should not throw a breaking ball, any type of breaking ball, including a slider, until you shave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know this to be all nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know this to be all nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63932]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30036]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The seeds of Islamic fundamentalism is all over Iraqi walls, ... He said that six months before anybody else in the media.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47422]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11421]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54053]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the Truth in a little creed,  Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the Truth in a little creed,  Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need,  In Christ is all the God we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin andjoins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21767</guid></item></channel></rss>