<?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[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29558]]></link><description><![CDATA[If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real valuable thing is intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real valuable thing is intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough when you break down like that in the seventh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough when you break down like that in the seventh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're fortunate we didn't have any additional fatalities, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30266]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're fortunate we didn't have any additional fatalities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact. Successive records that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30085]]></link><description><![CDATA[All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact. Successive records that we see here prove that the Afar region is the origin of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played very sloppy early. We gave up too many goals in the first half. But we made some adjustments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played very sloppy early. We gave up too many goals in the first half. But we made some adjustments at halftime and played well enough to win in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man,  That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man,  That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls   Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;    Pillars and doors all were of brass;     Windows of latten were set with glass;      It was so rich in many wise,       That it was like a paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66731]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66731</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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want to move on. As of today, we will follow whatever the state guidelines are for off-season practice. As of today, you won't see us anywhere near a football until May 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the church:  The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of my idolatry,   And I'll believe thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,--   A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62200]]></link><description><![CDATA[After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've just got to go at them, like you've got no fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've just got to go at them, like you've got no fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called for Kenny-poo. They called and called, but he didn't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42035]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called for Kenny-poo. They called and called, but he didn't answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57057]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear [in the world today], because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40103]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40103</guid></item></channel></rss>