<?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 farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road,  And nailed if fast to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road,  And nailed if fast to his barn door,   That luck might down upon him pour;    That every blessing known in life     Might crown his homestead and his wife,      And never any kind of harm       Descend upon his growing farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55310]]></link><description><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,   And only vocal with the Maker's praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22506]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke.  Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of kidnapping has been the main reason for learning deficiencies, especially among children whose parents are government employees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of kidnapping has been the main reason for learning deficiencies, especially among children whose parents are government employees or high-ranking professionals like doctors and teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an incredible live band. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38219]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an incredible live band.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In talking to the guys elected, several of them were emotional about it. Many of them said this would probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38784]]></link><description><![CDATA[In talking to the guys elected, several of them were emotional about it. Many of them said this would probably be the highest honor they would achieve in their careers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right.  If a wish wander ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right.  If a wish wander that way, call it home;   He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56805]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43291]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56325</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/61536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof.   ... Middle English Sermons  July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein,   Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're comfortable that if the Time Warner partnership is not attributable to AT&T that we can fit under the 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're comfortable that if the Time Warner partnership is not attributable to AT&T that we can fit under the 30 percent cap,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A SOBA is a client/server application done right. It is a business application that is centered on Web services standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A SOBA is a client/server application done right. It is a business application that is centered on Web services standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61673]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore   Were on the new world set ashore,    He made it next his chief design     To plant and propagate a vine,      Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd       Far greater number, on dry ground,        Of wretched mankind, one by one,         Than all the flood before had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877</guid></item></channel></rss>