<?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 beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was "rosy-fingered"; to Shakespeare, it was "in russet mantle clad"; to Housman, "the ship of sunrise burning". The scientist can explain exactly why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has changed over the centuries, or that any one of these percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our knowledge of any aspect of Creation?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[anonymous fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43860]]></link><description><![CDATA[anonymous fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I don't think the final ball was there for us tonight. It got tougher as the game went on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I don't think the final ball was there for us tonight. It got tougher as the game went on because they were dropping a little deeper. We had to start putting more long stuff into the box. [Columbus] does well with that with their big guys in the box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only shame is to have none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only shame is to have none]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21354]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're in the minority. They're on the fringe and we need to keep them there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in the minority. They're on the fringe and we need to keep them there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1002]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !My wife was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27251]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women'sCaucus boycott of Moses!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:  Making home sweeter and friends dearer:  Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory:  Robbing death of its sting:  Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bad excuse, than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bad excuse, than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622]]></link><description><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretionary funds are asking for trouble anytime you give people money and the opportunity to do anything they want with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretionary funds are asking for trouble anytime you give people money and the opportunity to do anything they want with it and they aren't held accountable the possibilities are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40854</guid></item></channel></rss>