<?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[Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19921]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are the umpires, the only two people on the field who aren't going to get grass stains on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are the umpires, the only two people on the field who aren't going to get grass stains on their knees, the only ones allowed to wear dark trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30922]]></link><description><![CDATA[why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1719]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43076]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by concessions which deprive it of its essence or which detract from our Saviour's title to be called The Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by no means over yet. We have an enormous day ahead of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by no means over yet. We have an enormous day ahead of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between your mind and your heart: Your mind tells you what is smart and your heart tells you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between your mind and your heart: Your mind tells you what is smart and your heart tells you what you're going to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just another old ski racer to them. If they weren't so tunnel vision right now, they might be interested or have the time to ask questions. But I understand where they are at this moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of interaction with regulators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of interaction with regulators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54863</guid></item></channel></rss>