<?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[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray the principles of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47326]]></link><description><![CDATA[When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4281]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in people now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased...It's awesome! We weren't expecting anything and we wanted to go out and be proud of the fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased...It's awesome! We weren't expecting anything and we wanted to go out and be proud of the fact we were part of the competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turtle came in and did a great job for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turtle came in and did a great job for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupid is as stupid does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupid is as stupid does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36447]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in three years we saw an increase in domestic same-store rental revenues and we believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38635]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in three years we saw an increase in domestic same-store rental revenues and we believe that our combined in-store and online rental offering will allow us to further increase our market share and outperform the domestic rental industry in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men, so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men, so little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48793]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had three balls hit to the infield that were all taken care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42023]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had three balls hit to the infield that were all taken care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay my head   On my grave, as now my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according to Prof. [William] Ramsay's calculation, he had laboured for only five months. Thus his stay had not been long enough for him to do more than teach the fundamental truths which seemed to him of the first importance: all the circumstances of his visit were still fresh in his memory and he was recalling to the minds of his readers what he had taught them by word of mouth. Now in that Epistle we get an extraordinarily clear and coherent account of simple mission-preaching not only implied but definitely expressed. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38390</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/18110]]></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/18110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56601</guid></item></channel></rss>