<?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[It was many and many a year ago, In a District styled E.C.,  That a monster dwelt whom I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was many and many a year ago, In a District styled E.C.,  That a monster dwelt whom I cam to know   By the name of Cannibal Flea,    And the brute was possessed with no other thought     Than to live--and to live on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33568]]></link><description><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8199]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43139]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and executewith vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and executewith vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat themas probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get the less you know what is inside your body. You have to be checked to make sure nothing is going wrong ... There is nothing to be afraid of. It's something that, if you catch it early enough, you can avoid more complicated problems in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't control, the charges the tugs charge to provide assistance is competitive to other ports. The same holds true for our pilots, the guys who physically guide the ship in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can hurt me without my permission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can hurt me without my permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusionof knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusionof knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance to win every time out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine's not an idle cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine's not an idle cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17682]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63648]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8744]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51413]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt   But being seasoned with a gracious voice,    Obscures the show of evil? In religion,     What damned error but some sober brow      Will bless it and approve it with a text,       Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time slots at PTIA and gave out our entire supply of posters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts often contradict with truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts often contradict with truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to feel good about that offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34465]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to feel good about that offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34828]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;  Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62306]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61507</guid></item></channel></rss>