<?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[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart and soul of the question is whether they can charge us impact fees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart and soul of the question is whether they can charge us impact fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. (2 Kings 18:5)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the penn'worth of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the penn'worth of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61823]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only little boys and old men sneer at love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only little boys and old men sneer at love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53728]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is all you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is all you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,  Where several worthies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,  Where several worthies make one dignity,   Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   We are impressed and engaged to fight--    Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,     Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb      To chase these pagans in those holy fields       Over whose acres walked those blessed feet        Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed         For our advantage on the bitter cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;    But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,     Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;      But when they should endure the bloody spur,       They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades        Sink in the trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44913]]></link><description><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52596]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for my third strike for those first three batters I struck out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18812]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, but I was pretty nervous about how I'd be accepted. Ever since Day One it's just been great. There's been no negativity at all, absolutely none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52834</guid></item></channel></rss>