<?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[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13162]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46034]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  The law of nature is nothing but the law of God given to mankind for the conservation of his nature and the promotion of his perfective end: a law of which a man sees a reason and feels a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begone about your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begone about your business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27609]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains may break; But the deaf heart, the dumb by choice, The laggard soul that will not wake, The guilt that scorns to be forgiven -- These baffle e'en the spells of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:  Hast thou the knack? pamper it not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:  Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;   But if thou want it, buy it not too deare    Many affecting wit beyond their power,     Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (lowest total ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40714]]></link><description><![CDATA[For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (lowest total cost of ownership) options, which are typically voice-automated, Web self-service, or offshore. For higher-priced products or consultative services such as furniture or retail financial services, the right balance between automation and live agent becomes more complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54482]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really gone remarkably well when you consider some of the tensions we were dealing with two years ago, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42402]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really gone remarkably well when you consider some of the tensions we were dealing with two years ago,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall we now   Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,    And sell the mighty space of our large honors     For so much trash as may be grasped thus?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62870]]></link><description><![CDATA[No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7992]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has "come to himself" as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21998]]></link><description><![CDATA[An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21056]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21056</guid></item></channel></rss>