<?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[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26345]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all that out there. God bless you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,   Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is one of nature's masterpieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16770]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe;   The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.   - edited by John Payne Collier,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36593]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17880]]></link><description><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300]]></link><description><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and forests,   Repeating your ultimate word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will it be fun? Of course, man. Jack is Jack and we haven't seen him in a while. But there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will it be fun? Of course, man. Jack is Jack and we haven't seen him in a while. But there's one big difference in this clubhouse. You don't catch a whiff of cigar smoke anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23244]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A dry jest, sir.  (Andrew:) Are you full of them?   (Maria:) Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40398]]></link><description><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24564]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,  And thunder'd up into Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13305]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,  And thunder'd up into Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ensuring ... the program is not being taken advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The... task of the ministry is, not to undertake some specialist activity from which the rest of the faithful are excluded, but to pioneer in doing that which the whole church must do. And the ministry itself is no originator, but receives its task from Christ. The ordained ministers only exercise the ministry which Christ himself has first exercised, and which he continues to exercise through them, and through their activity in the whole church also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We basically sell anything that you would see at a deli. Our highest marked meal would be approximately $3.95, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40501]]></link><description><![CDATA[We basically sell anything that you would see at a deli. Our highest marked meal would be approximately $3.95, so it's a good deal come lunchtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both parties have been gearing up for this. It will be a very competitive year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both parties have been gearing up for this. It will be a very competitive year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48272]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8050]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing. The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. Thy love is insuperable when nothing may overcome it, that is, neither weal, nor woe, nor anguish, just of flesh nor the liking of this world... Thy love is inseparable when all thy thoughts and thy wills are gathered together and fastened wholly in Jesus Christ, so that thou mayest no time forget Him, but aye thou thinkest on Him... Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8050</guid></item></channel></rss>