<?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[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the divisions of the Christian Church sees clearly the advantage of a united Christian front and cannot see why the Churches cannot 'get together'. The problem is doubtless complicated, for there are many honest differences held with equal sincerity, but it is only made insoluble because the different denominations are (possibly unconsciously) imagining God to be Roman or Anglican or Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or what have you. If they could see beyond their little inadequate god, and glimpse the reality of God, they might even laugh a little and perhaps weep a little. The result would be a unity that actually does transcend differences, instead of ignoring them with public politeness and private contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's part of the calling God has given me -- that if you're willing and faithful to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's part of the calling God has given me -- that if you're willing and faithful to do the work God will give you the strength and guidance needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is the forerunner of perdition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is the forerunner of perdition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survival is nothing more than recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Survival is nothing more than recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36567]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in order to address the increasing needs. While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48198]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47195]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem to you to be saying something quite academic and theoretical. You would be surprised if you knew how soon one begins to feel the shortness of the tether: of how many things, even in middle life, we have to say, "No time for that", "Too late now" and "Not for me". But Nature herself forbids you [young people] to share that experience. A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age, is that of leaving futurity in God's hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common   That men are merriest when they are from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33942]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the moment. I think they'll thrive on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11150]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for life or a lesson for life!!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wonder lasted nine daies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61981]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wonder lasted nine daies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64442]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward yourgoals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3796]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3796</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/7098]]></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  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53475]]></link><description><![CDATA[His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32091</guid></item></channel></rss>