<?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[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is that grief which counsel can allay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is that grief which counsel can allay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21073]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48163]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to solve the problems of the Senate is to encourage people to assert their rights and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to solve the problems of the Senate is to encourage people to assert their rights and make a move when they see something unethical. Thailand has had enough lessons in this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors interested in McClatchy, frankly. But with this merger, McClatchy becomes the most interesting name in the group. It goes from an interesting little niche story to a major story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods Mill grinds slow, but sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods Mill grinds slow, but sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41157]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43198]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the early church:   The life of the early Church lay in constant intercommunication between all its parts; its health and growth were dependent on the free circulation of the life-blood of common thought and feeling. Hence it was firmly seated first on the great lines of communication across the empire, leading from its origin in Jerusalem to its imperial center in Rome. It had already struck root in Rome within little more than twenty years after the Crucifixion, and it had become really strong in the great city about thirty years after the Apostles began to look round and out from Jerusalem. This marvelous development was possible only because the seed of the new thought floated free on the main currents of communication, which were ever sweeping back and forward between the heart of the Empire and its outlying members. Paul, who mainly directed the great movement, threw himself boldly and confidently into the life of the time; he took the Empire as it was, accepted its political conformation and arrangement, and sought only to touch the spiritual and moral life of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13212]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer more in imagination than in reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer more in imagination than in reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,   Wise, foolish,--so am I;    Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,     Or hurl the cynic's ban?      Let me live in my house by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is a a pain in the butt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage equality changed life for people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage equality changed life for people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54073]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15029</guid></item></channel></rss>