<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  As one near death to those that wish him live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st  Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.   Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,    Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's the humour of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's the humour of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hangars were not destroyed from bomb damage but it brought back a lot of little memories of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hangars were not destroyed from bomb damage but it brought back a lot of little memories of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48031]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59052]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a tree dies, plant another in its place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66350]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a tree dies, plant another in its place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and will be surveying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and will be surveying city streets, parks and other public spaces to count the number of street homeless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19710]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made no more bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Made no more bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee 100 percent employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21059]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,   Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,    And all the comforts that the lowly roof     Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours      Of long uninterrupted evening, know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54050]]></link><description><![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29980]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in November) and added,] They're very tight-lipped about their private lives. ... next year there'll be the three of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a pageant, not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19312]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a pageant, not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44883]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35709</guid></item></channel></rss>