<?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[This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45064]]></link><description><![CDATA[This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65777]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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All I hear is we will do this and we will do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63581]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pansy freaked with jet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pansy freaked with jet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it isundoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individualdifferences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages andencourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed foran array of idealized entities will be the most productive, successful,or rewarding one. Choosing a cult methodology to be applied to a professionalclass is often an economic one, treating individuality as undesirable reducesthe professional to the proletariat, seen as less expensive and readilyreplaceable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4942]]></link><description><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World oil markets are fundamentally tight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28493]]></link><description><![CDATA[World oil markets are fundamentally tight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest   With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47379]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575]]></link><description><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575</guid></item><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[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19128]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33209]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is like pulling out a machine gun today. People did not want to get cut by that sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is like pulling out a machine gun today. People did not want to get cut by that sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51955]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5697]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44100]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that deales in the world needes foure seeves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  As we shared together our feelings about the study groups, we realised that we were not meeting together each week for an intellectual exercise: some thing very real and significant was taking place. We were coming to know that the Christian faith is not primarily an ethic; it is not the struggle to do good or be good, but an encounter with Christ, of which morality and ethical living are by-products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is yet before the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is yet before the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1719]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1719</guid></item></channel></rss>