<?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 silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If you go to the left you are sure to be right,   If you go to the right you are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get married you forget about kissing other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get married you forget about kissing other women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a big focus as to who will be the next Fed chairman, and the market is relieved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a big focus as to who will be the next Fed chairman, and the market is relieved to know that it's going to be someone decent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18623]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18085]]></link><description><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying lemons for Iraqi allies who have bull's-eyes on their backs. That's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,   By--sending the wine round too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;  Where rumor of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;  Where rumor of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;   A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;    A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;     A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;      A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;       A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16984]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of a great love, one is courageous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of a great love, one is courageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never seen such a high level in a competition before. Today's race was perhaps the most competitive ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never seen such a high level in a competition before. Today's race was perhaps the most competitive ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61795]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will help stability in Afghanistan and the whole region ... and also in the reconstruction efforts of our people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28276</guid></item></channel></rss>