<?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[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really shine,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world tojustify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reallyattractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God has granted grace    To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,     To lift the latch, and force the way:      And better had they ne'er been born,       Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65588]]></link><description><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   [He said:] that our sanctification did not depend upon our changing our works, but upon our doing that for God' s sake which commonly we do for our own; that it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66101]]></link><description><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49550]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479</guid></item></channel></rss>