<?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[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37812]]></link><description><![CDATA[This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here since day 1. We will make sure that he is successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40419]]></link><description><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love, cherish, and to obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love, cherish, and to obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on sea saile, being on land settle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on sea saile, being on land settle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13227</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[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it needs better enforcement language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39200]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it needs better enforcement language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're back on schedule. We're looking to put out the proposal at about the same time as before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34894]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're back on schedule. We're looking to put out the proposal at about the same time as before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24483]]></link><description><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The move shows confidence by the leadership that we are not guilty and don't fear anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The move shows confidence by the leadership that we are not guilty and don't fear anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34137]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31332]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer such a decision until any potential petroleum price hikes and their likely impact on inflation becomes clearer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40248</guid></item></channel></rss>