<?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[Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to know that I will sacrifice my body to do whatever they ask me to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38155]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29964]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. You need to be able to adjust your set and be flexible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."  But grant me still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."  But grant me still a friend in my retreat,   Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... they are bound by the command of Christ to suffer opposition to their doctrine with meekness and gentleness, and to be so far from striving to subdue their opposites with the civil sword, that they are bound with patience and meekness to wait if God peradventure will please to grant repentance unto their opposites...   The sword may make a whole nation of hypocrites. But to recover a soul from Satan by repentance, and to bring them from anti-Christian doctrine or worship to the Christian doctrine and worship, in the least true internal or external submission, is only worked by the all-powerful God through the sword of the Spirit in the hand of His spiritual officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disagreement involving students from our College at Florham and Metropolitan Campus and guests attending an Association of Black Collegians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disagreement involving students from our College at Florham and Metropolitan Campus and guests attending an Association of Black Collegians dance at Florham on Saturday evening resulted in an escalating confrontation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was better than the last one. He spotted the ball exceptionally well and kept the ball down, throwing all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was better than the last one. He spotted the ball exceptionally well and kept the ball down, throwing all of his pitches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12989]]></link><description><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our follies that we are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide   Perhaps may fight again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having this one concept, this one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51640]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to the U.S. doesn't get you much in return,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'avez ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61786]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous l'avez voulu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, whether it's regulated or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557</guid></item></channel></rss>