<?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[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3824]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have much better ideas as to how they can get the message to their peers in a way that will make them think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59338]]></link><description><![CDATA[No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are and thats the place from where you can control the past and the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42448]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry and if you don't have a strong presence on both sides of the Atlantic you might as well not show up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for those who Grieve,    Too Short for those who Rejoice;     But for those who Love,      Time is not.   - Henry Jackson van Dyke,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56551]]></link><description><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ill word may empoison liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a depth of ... confusion that we weren't expecting. I think people take their freedoms for granted. Bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32806]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a depth of ... confusion that we weren't expecting. I think people take their freedoms for granted. Bottom line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of win which they already had... The "Gospels" came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one." [Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55494]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41179]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809</guid></item></channel></rss>