<?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[To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50526]]></link><description><![CDATA[To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12317]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50004]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, but frankly we're not going to do those if they don't make sense from a price point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal. 5:5) everywhere and at all times. By the knowledge of Jesus Christ all human waiting is guaranteed, authorized and established; for He makes it known that it is not men who wait, but God -- in His faithfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37062]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous; some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city. But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained, of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill, enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of it came up to him and went into his blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57915]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John,  Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made   In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I tell whether I am reading into the text, not only my own presuppositions and questions, but also those of my own generation and even those of my own church and religious tradition. Evangelicals have been too afraid of the word "criticism", when only by critical questioning can I sufficiently disengage myself from my own worldly or religious (even evangelical) tradition to ask: Is this what the Bible is really saying?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is consistent with the small business loan growth we continued to experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54671]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are playing very well at the moment but we need to encourage each other to do better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like that, you just pick up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give advice unless you're asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give advice unless you're asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314]]></link><description><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird,  Heard in the still night, with its passionate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird,  Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60917</guid></item></channel></rss>