<?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[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republican Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republican Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done cannot be undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51385]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done cannot be undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51830]]></link><description><![CDATA[There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. But eight hours on a bus? That's crazy man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday   When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50955]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2416]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so great a figure   Be stamped upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35877]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38586]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33011]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery. Pride goes before destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item></channel></rss>