<?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[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be the leading investment bank in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be the leading investment bank in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is in a wait-and-see mode. It's waiting for confirmation of an economic recovery, some kind of resolution on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is in a wait-and-see mode. It's waiting for confirmation of an economic recovery, some kind of resolution on Iraq and on what the Federal Reserve is going to do in its meeting this month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, "Are you scared, too?" "You bet your sweet life I am." "Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too." We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, "Who else feels like this?" the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34409]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;   (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65312]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done a pretty good job given that it was a very promotional year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32881]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done a pretty good job given that it was a very promotional year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would be no great men if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22487]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would be no great men if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34611]]></link><description><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29405]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes it over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this for a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57211]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this for a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight,  The blackness of that noonday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.  The wise for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.  The wise for cure on exercise depend;   God never made his work for man to mend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the competition level that they were playing against, but obviously if you're scoring that many points, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the competition level that they were playing against, but obviously if you're scoring that many points, you have weapons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14605]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and luckily I got to go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566]]></link><description><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the year   Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438</guid></item></channel></rss>