<?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[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to argue why legalization is not just an issue of labor but of protecting workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad we didn't win. It would have been a lot of commotion and would have ended their win streak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad we didn't win. It would have been a lot of commotion and would have ended their win streak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23281]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Past and to come seems best; things present worst. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Past and to come seems best; things present worst. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8395]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had never felt it. To His humanity, His assumed flesh, it seemed terrible -- Gethsemane bears witness how terrible it seemed; but He passed into it for love of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29857]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would have done as they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The environmental concerns for the entire project have been met up front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The environmental concerns for the entire project have been met up front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons. "This people which knoweth not the law are accursed", was the common doctrine of Jews and Greeks. The philosophers addressed themselves only to the well-to-do, the intellectual, and the pure. To the mysteries were invited only those who had clean hands and sound understanding. It was a constant marvel to the heathen that the Christians called the sick and the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56035]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketing effort from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketing effort from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24227]]></link><description><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61831]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  If 'religion' is understood... as man's search for God on man's own terms, as his effort to make some kind of adjustment to the 'ground of being' on a level less radical than that of the self-forgetful commitment of faith, it clearly can become faith's greatest enemy, the last bastion of human pride to hold out against God. The experience of the Jews in relation to Jesus, and of the churches throughout the ages, demonstrates that this is the most persistent and far-reaching temptation which confronts men. To call attention to this is always an urgently necessary part of the prophetic ministry within the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1937]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35628]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52076]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6994]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.   - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (2),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3936]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item></channel></rss>