<?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[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36267]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â including our board ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â just how important the external and internal reputation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â including our board ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â just how important the external and internal reputation of Wal-Mart is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion -- boat dealers, marinas, restaurants, tackle shops -- everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50491]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57540]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330   The Spirit of Christ can set men free, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330   The Spirit of Christ can set men free, and can enable them to become their true selves, without requiring their dependence on any particular religious organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise.    Wake the power within thee slumbering,     Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,      Thou wilt bless the task when reaping       Sweet labour's prize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great   As when a giant dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5307]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect [women] is for the state to come out and say one law, one process, one secular law for all, and that is it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51397]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11921]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/249]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characters attend a lot of balls in the book so this made the book more interesting. It's been the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characters attend a lot of balls in the book so this made the book more interesting. It's been the most confusing book I've read for a long time. I don't understand the time period or the customs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41827</guid></item></channel></rss>