<?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[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have every intention of relaunching cruise service from the great city of New Orleans as soon as the infrastructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have every intention of relaunching cruise service from the great city of New Orleans as soon as the infrastructure is in place so that our ships may contribute to the economic recovery of the area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself was that of cashier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48798]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10657]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34828]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37186]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;   That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead    In summer luxury--he has never done     With his delights, for when tired out with fun,      He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own efforts or contriving, but must be received as the gift of God's Spirit, working in and among us. The work of the group is to keep open the channels of receptiveness through study, discipline, prayer, and self-offering. When a group learns to live in this faith, it can keep the lines of endeavor tentative and sensitive to new headings and possibilities, on the one hand; and, on the other, move forward resolutely under such light as is now given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy  To know I'm further off from heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy  To know I'm further off from heaven   Than when I was a boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36624]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under the market economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying on trust is the way to pay double. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buying on trust is the way to pay double.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51967]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally bring 20 to 30 paintings every year. It's become expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54946</guid></item></channel></rss>