<?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 missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34828]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not let daylight in upon the magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not let daylight in upon the magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63071]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function  Is smothered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60020]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function  Is smothered in surmise and nothing is   But what is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay close,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I don't know if what he did was a crime, I feel it was problematic in a moral sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I don't know if what he did was a crime, I feel it was problematic in a moral sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is expected to eliminate some key restrictions by January of 2005. Earlier, companies with a market cap of under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34657]]></link><description><![CDATA[China is expected to eliminate some key restrictions by January of 2005. Earlier, companies with a market cap of under $2 billion could operate in China only with a local joint-venture partner. This will no longer be valid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,   Ha, ha, the wooing o't!    Maggie coost her head fu' high,     Looked asklent and unco skeigh,      Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:       Ha, ha! the wooing o't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a conversation with the referee by telephone; he is going to go home and submit a report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a conversation with the referee by telephone; he is going to go home and submit a report to me overnight. At this stage I can't say any more until we get further information from the referee and look at the video.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9553]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First things first, second things never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3950]]></link><description><![CDATA[First things first, second things never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63640]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20918]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13680]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33695]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the largest possible consensus. We have our own agenda. We need to conduct open talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest him in Montgomery to pick up his cousin. We did some research and found out that Grice was stabbed that day and he was in the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetitionand emotion will one day become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetitionand emotion will one day become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21747</guid></item></channel></rss>