Results - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54046<![CDATA[Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54047<![CDATA[A bad ending follows a bad beginning. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54048<![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049<![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54050<![CDATA[Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54051<![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54052<![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54053<![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54037<![CDATA[Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54038<![CDATA[As you sow y' are like to reap. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54039<![CDATA[The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed! I should ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54040<![CDATA[The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54041<![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54042<![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043<![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044<![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54045<![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54034<![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54035<![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54036<![CDATA[So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27560<![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533<![CDATA[The ends must justify the means. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006<![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3961<![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3962