<?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[And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other tender drops, which ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other tender drops, which ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44613]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.  "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in,   'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise. [Fr., Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de seduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous parait fort compromise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't learn less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't learn less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44304]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64827]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:  So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,   Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning six flights rather convincingly. Good performance by everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the main factor weighing heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36554</guid></item></channel></rss>