<?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[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers by them that make profession of it. Never was there less regard for the Person and offices of Christ, of His grace, and of the benefits of His mediation, among them that are called Christians, than is found among many at this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64758]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15815]]></link><description><![CDATA[What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of prophets of the future is the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505]]></link><description><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Olympics coming up and everything we're trying to do after the lockout, the timing really is awful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37383]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Olympics coming up and everything we're trying to do after the lockout, the timing really is awful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49252]]></link><description><![CDATA[For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23817]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24645]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;   In those freckles live their savors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17224]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7660]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm feeling more hopeful now than I did a few months ago. I look for them to announce a settlement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm feeling more hopeful now than I did a few months ago. I look for them to announce a settlement on the retirements in the next few days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, I just sent you an email... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hey, I just sent you an email...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,  With a pretty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3633]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,  With a pretty, innocent, saintlike air,   Are you trying to think of some angel-taught prayer    You learned above, Baby Louise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35328]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang for your buck doing a fixed-rate mortgage than doing an adjustable-rate mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to keep people out of prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no birds. If you saw something move, it was either a dog or a cat. They clung onto trees. We would bark like dogs and the dogs would bark back at us. I took a speakerphone to amplify my voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55482</guid></item></channel></rss>