<?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[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66252]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all very much excited. We had a chance last year, but we got shot down before the Top 28. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40787]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all very much excited. We had a chance last year, but we got shot down before the Top 28. The whole community is coming together behind this team this year. Different people are hosting events to show their support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very important part of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very important part of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48874]]></link><description><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefe boxe of health is time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefe boxe of health is time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47842]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36815]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest accomplishment has been to consistently hit timeline commitments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest accomplishment has been to consistently hit timeline commitments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54106]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is a smaller group.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65015]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Went in at the one eare and out at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41623]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9901</guid></item></channel></rss>