<?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[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're moving ahead. We should've been in operation by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're moving ahead. We should've been in operation by now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening   The first service that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening   The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them... Listening can be a greater service than speaking... One who cannot listen long and patiently will presently be talking beside the point and be never really speaking to others. Anyone who thinks his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies...   We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33811]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of water that was on that floor. We pumped 85,000 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38995]]></link><description><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36966]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. The company continues to take the steps necessary to return to financial health and regain the confidence of its many stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States of America to lead the world in the energy revolution, and not lag behind Japan or Germany]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives in his issue; even so the race   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26178]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Access to video streaming rights with Universal underscores our goal as a company to provide quality, in-home entertainment, in whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Access to video streaming rights with Universal underscores our goal as a company to provide quality, in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay close,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have other fish to fry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have other fish to fry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's use is to me no more   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,    Or like a cunning instrument cased up     Or, being open, put into his hands      That knows no touch to tune the harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60876]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As yon summits soft and fair,    Clad in colours of the air,     Which to those who journey near,      Barren, brown, and rough appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see the biggest protest ever on Parliament Hill in June. I can see the streets packed with people as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see the biggest protest ever on Parliament Hill in June. I can see the streets packed with people as if it were Canada Day and there will be chartered planes and buses coming in. It could be something like a march against a GST increase or even a protest against another war, but people are going to be boisterous about it ... Something very good is going to come out of it for Canadians, I see them cheering June 10th or 11th with a national address on TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61113</guid></item></channel></rss>