<?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 philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4741]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're no longer a doormat, and the guys want to be part of this resurgence. If we were not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40234]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're no longer a doormat, and the guys want to be part of this resurgence. If we were not in the top 10 this year, we would be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society where none intrudes   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the root of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the root of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,  For the apparel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,  For the apparel oft proclaims the man,   And they in France of the best rank and station    Are of a most select and generous chief in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports is the toy department of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports is the toy department of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's a whole lot of sophomores who have no idea what they're in store for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement in 2002, ... As physicians we should make judicious use of CT scans a priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closing.ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â  It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closing.ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â  It will require the mayor to have a plan on whether or not they're going to ask the theaters not to have a movie, et cetera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40518]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fickle place. You see the same thing over and over and over. Art here seems stagnant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fickle place. You see the same thing over and over and over. Art here seems stagnant to me. Especially some of these so-called 'Native artists' that are producing craft-type work. But that's the only way you can make any money at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pot boils badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pot boils badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the main trials which beset you, but also under the accidental and accessory annoyances which arise out of them. We often find people who imagine themselves ready to accept a trial in itself who are impatient of its consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a meansof settling international disputes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15694]]></link><description><![CDATA[High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59127]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59127</guid></item></channel></rss>