<?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[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he can't just tell the guys that. I have to do it with my body language. I was trying to be active today and keep moving, looking for the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The first service one owes to others in the fellowship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43922]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo and it was just real fun from then on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The original is unfaithful to the translation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The original is unfaithful to the translation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50004]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6046]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that the lily pads are getting to be too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel a whole lot better. I got this off of my chest and I'm just trying to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel a whole lot better. I got this off of my chest and I'm just trying to move forward right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61436]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something given that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something given that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44754]]></link><description><![CDATA[We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,   Pourest thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,   Pourest thy full heart    In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24110</guid></item></channel></rss>