<?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[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10813]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</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[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not Arafat's business, ... We are citizens of the state of Israel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28338]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not Arafat's business, ... We are citizens of the state of Israel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65495]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20288]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. - Definitions, 1953.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incurred. It's unfortunate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30950]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incurred. It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheering for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheering for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important that the community has its questions answered and its concerns addressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important that the community has its questions answered and its concerns addressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time creatively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time creatively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will do very well for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of wisdom, the new law, is, "Thou shalt." To be Christian is to be old? Not a bit of it. To be Christian is to be reborn, and free, and unafraid, and immortally young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that proves not to be possible then I think as a community we're prepared to trust to the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that proves not to be possible then I think as a community we're prepared to trust to the good offices of the premier and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice  To our own lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice  To our own lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40241]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to be over-the-top about complaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was waiting for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was waiting for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13994</guid></item></channel></rss>