<?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[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher has gone to South Africa to drop his wife who is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15534]]></link><description><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3074]]></link><description><![CDATA[You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those who have to fight the battle of Christianity in the twentieth century," wrote Marcus Dods. "Yes, perhaps I do; but it will be a stiff fight." Of course, he did, and anybody with his valiant spirit would. There was a day when our Lord passed through cheering streets wildly enthusiastic; and another day when He watched the crowds deserting Him, till even the disciples themselves seemed to be withering, and He looked at them sadly. "Will you also go away?" He said. And Peter strode across the sudden empty spaces widening around Him, and put his back to Christ's. "No", he cried; "there are two of us, at least", and faced the world, Christ's poor minority of one. I would rather have been Peter than one of the shouting mob. And today, perhaps, we may get our chance of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, you have 100% of your life left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, you have 100% of your life left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot anarchists are out there who see what they're doing as a long-term war against technology. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot anarchists are out there who see what they're doing as a long-term war against technology. They don't believe in taking credit -- they just want to do damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66860]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will do whatever is required by those people (at the alcohol treatment facility). This is the first step of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30013]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will do whatever is required by those people (at the alcohol treatment facility). This is the first step of a long path for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The claims data are telling us that the labor market is continuing to improve and growing at a rate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The claims data are telling us that the labor market is continuing to improve and growing at a rate of about 200,000 jobs a month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46836]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide waving wings expanded bear   The flying chariot through the fields of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33719]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of his wife and daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140</guid></item></channel></rss>