<?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[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go   Just as they're set, too fast or slow;    And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,     'Tis ten to one that side is cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</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[Virtue alone is happiness below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468]]></link><description><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That follows after prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19305]]></link><description><![CDATA[History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised because the team had been doing well in matches and training. I even knew that the Poles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31034]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised because the team had been doing well in matches and training. I even knew that the Poles were scared of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me a pretty easy shot. I got it in, which was huge for us. We really needed to win this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They held it in conjunction with the Orange Festival, and the farmers would put on displays. All the locals would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35561]]></link><description><![CDATA[They held it in conjunction with the Orange Festival, and the farmers would put on displays. All the locals would come, and they even attracted folks from Dania, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale. It was one of the things that put Davie in the public eye. As more people heard about the rodeo, they'd come to Davie. It was a big thing at the time, and they had some pretty serious square dancing contests,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10622]]></link><description><![CDATA[You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villain and he be many miles asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villain and he be many miles asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars and fuel? ... As chairman of the House Environment Committee, I heard from all sides of this debate. My conclusion: Incentives to reduce pollution are better than forcing motorists to live with a de facto car tax which won't make cleaner air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just as we do with Lleyton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.  ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35439]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're clicking (offensively) better this year than last year at this point. ( Tyler ) Bruce is finding his receivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42099]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're clicking (offensively) better this year than last year at this point. ( Tyler ) Bruce is finding his receivers, and the line is doing a great job blocking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953</guid></item></channel></rss>