<?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[He that beleeveth all, misseth; hee that beleeveth nothing, hitts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that beleeveth all, misseth; hee that beleeveth nothing, hitts not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564]]></link><description><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the cheif ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35051]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price, ... Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27777]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12313]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15686]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;   Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:    Let not my sister read it in your eye;     Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;      Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty;       Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;        Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;         Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;          Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16095]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,--  The streaming red, the deeper blue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16140]]></link><description><![CDATA[England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,--  The streaming red, the deeper blue,   Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white?    The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red--     Let Asia's groaning millions speak;      The white it tells of colour fled       From starving Erin's pallid cheek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?Nobel laureate in literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50942]]></link><description><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45260]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The... task of the ministry is, not to undertake some specialist activity from which the rest of the faithful are excluded, but to pioneer in doing that which the whole church must do. And the ministry itself is no originator, but receives its task from Christ. The ordained ministers only exercise the ministry which Christ himself has first exercised, and which he continues to exercise through them, and through their activity in the whole church also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49634]]></link><description><![CDATA[More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written strange defeatures in my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting pictures mile on mile,    Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths     Whence a smokeless incense breathes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57787</guid></item></channel></rss>