<?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[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33656]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers, ... The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A snow yeare, a rich yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A snow yeare, a rich yeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34184]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice when my brother joined the band. It seemed like things really clicked and came together with him on bass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61814]]></link><description><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several processes have been initiated over the last couple of years that not only reduce the amount of paper used, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several processes have been initiated over the last couple of years that not only reduce the amount of paper used, but also help the firm operate more efficiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree;  Where Alph, the sacred river ran,   Through caverns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54319]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree;  Where Alph, the sacred river ran,   Through caverns measureless to man    Down to a sunless sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62738]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an enjoyable experience to make a difference, ... They [volunteers] are actually getting dirty. They're using their hearts, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an enjoyable experience to make a difference, ... They [volunteers] are actually getting dirty. They're using their hearts, their hands and their heads to make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17913]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Prodigal sons, forgiven and reconciled with their heavenly Father, could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Prodigal sons, forgiven and reconciled with their heavenly Father, could they do other than forgive one another? A fellowship of prodigal sons came into being -- the church of Christ. Love begets love. A new power ... was let loose upon our suffering world, the power to love those who have not deserved love, the unworthy, the unlovely and unlovable, a man's enemies, and even his torturers. Christians, in imitation of the Saviour, became, as it were, Christs to one another and to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That means I've got to go in there and win. Flat out. Not being cocky or anything, we've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42267]]></link><description><![CDATA[That means I've got to go in there and win. Flat out. Not being cocky or anything, we've got to go in there and take care of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34685]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start looking at [free-agent] players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item></channel></rss>