<?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[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cleere conscience is a sure carde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cleere conscience is a sure carde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62084]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are the answers we cannot bear to admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45365]]></link><description><![CDATA[So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;   The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome the fact that it was made, we think that it's a positive step, but there's also an agreement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome the fact that it was made, we think that it's a positive step, but there's also an agreement that it's an insufficient step,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55613]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.  ... Henry Vaughan April 24, 2000 Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something for an Empty Briefcase ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something for an Empty Briefcase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29766]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[640K ought to be enough for anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9576]]></link><description><![CDATA[640K ought to be enough for anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered family,    Enlarger of the common life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35380]]></link><description><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35380</guid></item></channel></rss>