<?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[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   And loves through solid walls to break.    [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites     Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius      Ictu fulmineo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid;  Ornament it carried none   But the notches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid;  Ornament it carried none   But the notches on the blade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11374]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and deprived hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but the anointing of the Holy Spirit can do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66427]]></link><description><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64519]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   The noisy wheel was still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38424]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some ill planet reigns. I must be patient till the heavens look  With an aspect more favorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some ill planet reigns. I must be patient till the heavens look  With an aspect more favorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38910]]></link><description><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. "He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height." Nay, peace! I shall behold, before the night, The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame, The wounded hands, the weary human face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30808]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33655]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers. The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16015]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3038]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way out is the way through ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way out is the way through]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12121</guid></item></channel></rss>