<?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[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are strong and have come together through a lot of adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42630]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are strong and have come together through a lot of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42630</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[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30327]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not typical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34685]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start looking at [free-agent] players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice President Dan Quayle    Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. •Ambrose Bierce    You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,  And, like living coals, the apples  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,  And, like living coals, the apples   Burned among the withering leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45725]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don\'t find fault, find a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don\'t find fault, find a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Under the proposal] Ms Arroyo is at the same time president and one who consolidates the powers of prime minister ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31114]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Under the proposal] Ms Arroyo is at the same time president and one who consolidates the powers of prime minister in her hands, which includes the power to dissolve parliament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17981]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band,  Has yet a harder task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51082]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band,  Has yet a harder task to prove--   By firm resolve to conquer love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd  Further than seen, . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd  Further than seen, . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be pedestaled in triumph?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894</guid></item></channel></rss>