<?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[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  After all, we are told, our salvation has already been accomplished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  After all, we are told, our salvation has already been accomplished by the grace of God... It was unkind to speak to men like this, for such a cheap offer could only leave them bewildered and tempt them from the way to which they had been called by Christ. Having laid hold on cheap grace, they were barred forever from the knowledge of costly grace. Deceived and weakened, men felt that they were strong now that they were in possession of this cheap grace -- whereas they had in fact lost the power to live the life of discipleship and obedience. The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998</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[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40419]]></link><description><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24563]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the days dwindle down To a precious few, September, November - And these few precious days I'd spend with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42310]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the days dwindle down To a precious few, September, November - And these few precious days I'd spend with you, These golden days I'd spend with you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Seducers we, they say; but they lead men astray. Oh, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Seducers we, they say; but they lead men astray. Oh, what a noble seduction ours, that men should change from dissolute to sober living -- or towards it; to justice from injustice -- or tending that way; to wisdom from being foolish -- or becoming such; and from cowardice, meanness and timidity, show courage and fortitude, not least in this struggle for the sake of our religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there's not much mystery. It will be a matter of who out-executes whom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;  And health from either--he in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;  And health from either--he in time prepares   For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819]]></link><description><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining operations -- but that's not an issue now because of capacity constraints we have here in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a good baseball game. I thought everything about that game was good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38204]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a good baseball game. I thought everything about that game was good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44250]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's leaving home after living alone for so many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25528]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22877]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might be a drop off in interest. What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42191</guid></item></channel></rss>