<?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[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." The hungry sheep, that crave the living Bread. Grow few, and lean, and feeble as can be, When fed not Gospel, but philosophy; Not Love's eternal story, no, not this, But apt allusion, keen analysis. Discourse well framed -- forgot as soon as heard -- Man's thin dilution of the living Word. O Preacher, leave the rhetorician's arts; Preach Christ, the Food of hungry human hearts; Hold fast to science, history, or creed, But preach the Answer to our human need, That in this place, at least, it may be said No hungry sheep looks up and is not fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56801]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song" So I keep singing a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43710]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51116</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[Truth exists. Only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists. Only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great runs with my friends. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24391]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12264]]></link><description><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we have to change the schemes or anything. We still have our leadership, and that's the biggest key.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With everything we look at, there is something about gambling that relates to America. Eventually, we would want regulations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39807]]></link><description><![CDATA[With everything we look at, there is something about gambling that relates to America. Eventually, we would want regulations and controls because outside the U.S. is outside our ability to control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15334]]></link><description><![CDATA["Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20275</guid></item></channel></rss>