<?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[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it wasn't all that noticeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18162]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3570]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, though bough with bough be overrun.   But with a blessing every glade receives    High salutation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16938]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22996]]></link><description><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22996</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[What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31086]]></link><description><![CDATA[What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live With Regis and Kelly. I have heard it was Jessica who commenced the divorce action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live With Regis and Kelly. I have heard it was Jessica who commenced the divorce action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57854]]></link><description><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make   The bounds of freedom wider yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified; they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only to be snatched away by an invisible hand patiently waiting for the hour when the cup is sweetest; they are given to us that we may grow, alike through their rise or their withdrawal. They are real, they are sweet, and they are worthy of our longing for them; we gain nothing by calling them dross, or the world an illusion, or ourselves the victims of deception, or by exalting renunciation as the highest virtue. When these opportunities are denied us, it is a real, not an imaginary, loss which we sustain; and our part is not that of bare renunciation, of simple surrender; our part is to recognize the loss, to bear the pain, and to find a deeper and richer life in doing the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23282]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66580]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52393]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63258</guid></item></channel></rss>