<?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[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead on the field of honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dead on the field of honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blaze razed four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blaze razed four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14762]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49355]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13968]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21661]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["They shall return unto me with their whole heart." "Ye shall search for me with all your heart." He makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6675]]></link><description><![CDATA["They shall return unto me with their whole heart." "Ye shall search for me with all your heart." He makes a direct call to us for single-mindedness: a single-minded longing for Him -- no lesser aim will do; no desire to be good, no striving to measure up to some standard we have set for ourselves, to correct some failure we have been shown in our way of life. These may be temporarily necessary, but they will turn to dust and ashes, they will end in a grim dryness, unless at the back of them all is what He asks of us --a never-ending search for a real knowledge of Him, for a sense of His reality, a confidence in His companionship, a joy and delight in the very person of God Himself. It is for this that we must learn to long and long, till our prayers for it become not just a form of words, but a stretching out of our whole being to Him.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn    November 27, 1999  When God finished man He breathed into the human form the divine life, "and man became a living soul." Man is created to be a witness and likeness of God. God and man are so near to one another that it was possible for the Eternal Word to become Man without ceasing to be God, to re-ascend to the Highest without dehumanizing the Manhood which He had assumed; so near that the believer may say in the fullest meaning of the words, "I live, yet not I, but Christ".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. But overall, we weren't at our best today. Some kids just had an off day today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue   Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28140]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies are so stimulating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies are so stimulating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34412]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know one thing - that Tim Holland led police to the body. I think a lot of information can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know one thing - that Tim Holland led police to the body. I think a lot of information can be drawn from that fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29208</guid></item></channel></rss>