<?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[What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley  The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley  The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way they're so proper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way they're so proper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager administers; the leader innovates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager administers; the leader innovates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19951]]></link><description><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"   "How's the world a-usin' you?"    . . . .     W'en you travel through the strange      Country t'other side the range,       Then the souls you've cheered will know        Who you be, an' say "hullo."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55944]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17016]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, both are alike requited; God is forgotten and the soldier slighted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17910]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5836</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[Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won? -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won? -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, it was a good team effort, ... Our serving at times needs to improve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, it was a good team effort, ... Our serving at times needs to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61143]]></link><description><![CDATA[To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a devil in every berry of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a devil in every berry of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50540</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></channel></rss>