<?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[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New things are fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49644]]></link><description><![CDATA[New things are fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the numbers, yes and no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks will probably hit a wall in the next couple of months, unless we move closer to the Goldilocks scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks will probably hit a wall in the next couple of months, unless we move closer to the Goldilocks scenario.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care,  Well pleased with delights which present are,   Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet-smelling flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sharp employ the sharp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sharp employ the sharp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51995]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made by himself or given to him. If his atlas tells him the world is flat he will not sail near what he believes to be the edge of our planet for fear of falling off. If his maps include a fountain of eternal youth, a Ponce de Leon will go off in quest of it. If someone digs up yellow dirt that looks like gold, he will for a time act exactly as if he has found gold. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. It does not determine what they will achieve. It determines their effort, their feelings, their hopes, not their accomplishments and results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34391]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still here. I take my three-mile walk at the mall everyday, and who knows what new treatments could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31344]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still here. I take my three-mile walk at the mall everyday, and who knows what new treatments could come along. I am 68, and I plan to make it to 70.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,   We first endure, then pity, then embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state. We are make (sic) a strategic error. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state. We are make (sic) a strategic error. FEMA will not have to answer to the people, we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the postponement is to re-examine the issue to explore all the options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is still much hard work ahead, we are pleased with the early progress we are making in addressing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36960]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is still much hard work ahead, we are pleased with the early progress we are making in addressing in-stock levels, customer service and store traffic, ... Nearly all of our vendors have resumed shipments to us and in-stock levels in the stores have improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,  Without whom Venus will not long attack us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48616</guid></item></channel></rss>