<?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 who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55087]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,  Who backwards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56253]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,  Who backwards looks.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become a part of the life of our churches. I have not made a study of why the testimony fell into disrepute and was discarded, but I suspect these were three of the factors:  (1) The same persons gave the testimony every time.  (2) They gave the same testimony every time.  (3) The testimony they gave was about something that happened ten, or twenty, or thirty years before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got some big kids and some athletic kids. We're going to do our best to contain them and play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31311]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got some big kids and some athletic kids. We're going to do our best to contain them and play some good sound football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5762]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55578]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34511]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:  Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transformation literally means going beyond your form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transformation literally means going beyond your form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160]]></link><description><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ever since we got here was to go to Salem. We were five minutes away. We can be tired all next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, in California I think you'll remember two years ago we had the siege, that happened in October in the `90's, it always happens around the October, November months near the end of September, ... To not have a false sense of security because just because we've been slow, doesn't mean we're out of the woods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56316]]></link><description><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just goofy. Making it easier for the accounting side shouldn't even be a consideration. They ought to be more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38478]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just goofy. Making it easier for the accounting side shouldn't even be a consideration. They ought to be more concerned about students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45135]]></link><description><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45135</guid></item></channel></rss>