<?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[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27189]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et commune periculum,  Una salus ambobus erit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of the market will continue through this quarter easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  It was something more than a glorified Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  It was something more than a glorified Jesus Christ in the heavens in which [the Apostles] believed. In the beginning, John the Baptist had taught his disciples to expect from Christ the baptism -- not of water only, as in his baptism -- but of the Spirit. Before His death, Jesus had sought to fill His disciples' minds with the expectation of this gift... And that Spirit had come in sensible power upon them some ten days after Jesus disappeared for the last time from their eyes... And this Spirit was the Spirit of God, but also, and therefore, the Spirit of Jesus. Jesus was not then merely a past example, or a remote Lord, but an inward presence and power. A mere example in past history becomes in experience a feebler and feebler power... But the example of Jesus was something much more than a memory. For He who had taught them in the past how to live was alive in the heavenly places and was working within them by His Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,   Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18033]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26197]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep   In the next valley-glades:    Was it a vision, or a waking dream?     Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37888]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really helped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers are all champions, the fees can more than double. Probably more like $200,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, win the trick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12752]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, win the trick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54403]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting hell invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29623]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this win will prove its value down the stretch. When you see what [other results] happened in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31657]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this win will prove its value down the stretch. When you see what [other results] happened in the conference tonight, I think these will turn out to be three big points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3659]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is the breath of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is the breath of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542</guid></item></channel></rss>