<?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[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accident of an accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accident of an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a conversation with the referee by telephone; he is going to go home and submit a report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a conversation with the referee by telephone; he is going to go home and submit a report to me overnight. At this stage I can't say any more until we get further information from the referee and look at the video.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and the needy, harbour the houseless, comfort the sick, visit prisoners, bury the dead. The seven works of spiritual mercy be these: teach men the truth, counsel men to hold with Christ's law, chastise sinners by moderate reproving in charity, comfort sorrowful men by Christ's passion, forgive wrongs, suffer meekly reproofs for the right of God's law, pray heartily for friend and for foe.   ... Middle English Sermons  September 6, 2001 Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   Of the access for us, at any rate, to the spirit of life -- us who were born in Christendom, and are in touch, conscious or unconscious, with Christianity -- this is the true account. Questions over which the churches spend so much labour and time -- questions about the Trinity, about the godhead of Christ, about the procession of the Holy Ghost -- are not vital; what is vital is the doctrine of access to the spirit of life through Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41423]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- though they are troublesome enough. The centre of trouble is in the personality of man as a whole, which is self-centred and can only be wholesome and healthy if it is God-centred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27717]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4556]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13263]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line on this job is easy, ... If I do it right this Sunday, they'll let me come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line on this job is easy, ... If I do it right this Sunday, they'll let me come back and do it again next Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item></channel></rss>