<?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[Where would we be without salt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where would we be without salt?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all talented. They're all special, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all talented. They're all special,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36706]]></link><description><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good sign, a good step the village is taking toward incorporating renewable energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good sign, a good step the village is taking toward incorporating renewable energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowd gives the leader new strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowd gives the leader new strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a perfect landscape, but the areas we can apply ourselves, which is now really limited to containers, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33756]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a perfect landscape, but the areas we can apply ourselves, which is now really limited to containers, we're doing it and I think we're doing it in an efficient fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   Our own experience preaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6541]]></link><description><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kissed thee, ere I killed thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kissed thee, ere I killed thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to have a situation where Coach Chavis and Coach Slade say I want you to be on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to have a situation where Coach Chavis and Coach Slade say I want you to be on the best receiver and lock him down, stay on him the whole game, don't let him touch the ball, smother him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is a refuge from hasty judgment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64720]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is a refuge from hasty judgment.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to know that I will sacrifice my body to do whatever they ask me to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56137]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned   Sole monarch of the universal earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [Lat., Si quoties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56394]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat  Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,   Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13288]]></link><description><![CDATA[ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16174]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing the which is flattered, but a spark   To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;    Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,     Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item></channel></rss>