<?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[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34717]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on that. Every ankle injury is different but I think we are faced with a (serious) tear of the lateral ligament and there is associated bone bruising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35166]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  It is not for nothing that the central rite of Christ's religion is not a fast but a feast, as if to say that the one indispensable requirement for obtaining a portion in Him is an appetite, some hunger -- is to be without what we must have and He can give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best bred have the best portion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best bred have the best portion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59572]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication between God and us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication between God and us but what is, on His part, in laws, commands, and promises; and an ours, by obedience performed in our strength and upon our convictions unto them. To exclude hence the real internal operations of the Holy Ghost, is to destroy the Gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best of all, I only missed one spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best of all, I only missed one spare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18712]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63010]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to evaluate both markets on their merits and choose to list solely on Nasdaq is a major validation of the Nasdaq market model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of the largest public workers union in the state. That is one of the largest conflicts of interest that we've ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within the moonlight in his room,   Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,    An angel, writing in a book of gold;     Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,      And to the presence in the room he said--       "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head,        And, with a look made all of sweet accord,         Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The center of the stage is where I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The center of the stage is where I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this race is going to be aggressive. There are a number of teams out there that have solid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this race is going to be aggressive. There are a number of teams out there that have solid riders that are going make the race fast. They aren't going to sit in the pack and have the slower (teams) stay around. From the start, this race is going to be played out to be one of the fastest races in recent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still one of the best software companies out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35288]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still one of the best software companies out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125</guid></item></channel></rss>