<?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[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were pleased with the defensive effort the girls put forth on Sunday. We have been working a lot on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were pleased with the defensive effort the girls put forth on Sunday. We have been working a lot on the defensive aspect of the game in the early spring practices and it was nice to see it translate onto the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46292]]></link><description><![CDATA[A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1709]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the eye?   Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?    Yes; but not this alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21882]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33005]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,   A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53017]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices in the former two are considerably cheaper than their Alberta counterparts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate women's rights and welfare and the struggle to liberate women without denouncing this particular woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54254]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4281]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38435]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts without disclosing that the actions in 1995/1996 had themselves been outside the sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend its ways,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receiveback. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21492]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receiveback.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take that gamble to rebuild, it will pay off. The community is behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39274]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue about it, saying 'I had to do it last year'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56295]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56295</guid></item></channel></rss>