<?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[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22315]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3278]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46494]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral the only ones you'll hear are the ones that are controversial or inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the concerns of the present world. They know indeed that they are mortal, but they do not feel it. The truth rests in their understandings, and cannot gain admission into their hearts. This speculative persuasion is altogether different from that strong practical impression of the infinite importance of eternal things, which, attended with a proportionate sense of the shortness and uncertainty of all below, while it prompts to activity from a conviction that the night cometh when no man can work, produces a certain firmness of texture, which hardens us against the buffetings of fortune, and prevents our being very deeply penetrated by the cares and interests, the good or evil, of this transitory state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our geese are swans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58443]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our geese are swans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real training for leadership is leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real training for leadership is leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405]]></link><description><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts -- to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66577]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35134]]></link><description><![CDATA[A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry is working on tags as small as the dot of on the letter 'i', or tags can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry is working on tags as small as the dot of on the letter 'i', or tags can be woven into fabric, in effect hiding them from the consumer. The best way to protect the consumer is to clearly label products that have the tags and let people decide whether or not they want to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101]]></link><description><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item></channel></rss>