<?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 wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56034]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails;  I shall still Vicar be of Bray,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails;  I shall still Vicar be of Bray,   Whichever side prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly diminish the credibility of this organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit. It was kind of a bummer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit. It was kind of a bummer last year to get DQ for that. Things happen, but that's racing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18023]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire is bound to hold. But while smiling at each other, both sides will continue making preparations for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have that right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have that right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/293]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without haste, but without rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without haste, but without rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25612]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.  [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34197]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some big steals and we were able to capitalize on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.  [Lat., Curva trahit mites, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.  [Lat., Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24374]]></link><description><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any solution to a problem changes the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any solution to a problem changes the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time  In misery.   [Lat., Nessun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57244]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time  In misery.   [Lat., Nessun maggior dolore    Che ricordarsi del tempo felice     Nella miseria.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  After all, we are told, our salvation has already been accomplished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  After all, we are told, our salvation has already been accomplished by the grace of God... It was unkind to speak to men like this, for such a cheap offer could only leave them bewildered and tempt them from the way to which they had been called by Christ. Having laid hold on cheap grace, they were barred forever from the knowledge of costly grace. Deceived and weakened, men felt that they were strong now that they were in possession of this cheap grace -- whereas they had in fact lost the power to live the life of discipleship and obedience. The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. That indeed would be my definition of God: God is He with whom we have ultimately to do, the final reality to which we have to face up, and with whom we have, in the last resort, to reckon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no importance, but the decisive factor. The fact that the name of Jesus comes at the beginning does not make it a prayer in the name of Jesus; but this means to pray in such a manner that I dare name Jesus in it, that is to say, dare to think of Him, think His holy will together with whatever I am praying for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59817]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59817</guid></item></channel></rss>