<?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[He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54484]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day you waste is one you can never make up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day you waste is one you can never make up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the operation has been successful, so it is going to be two or three weeks before he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the operation has been successful, so it is going to be two or three weeks before he is fit and available for selection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends make the bad times good, and the good times unforgettable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends make the bad times good, and the good times unforgettable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the deepening shadows of death's night, Men see an open door ... beyond it, light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30387]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really looked strong out there. She lost it a little bit at the end, but she came back. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39444]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really looked strong out there. She lost it a little bit at the end, but she came back. That's what I like about her, she'll always come back strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love -- time is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;  But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',   They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36699]]></link><description><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,  Await alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,  Await alike th' inevitable hour,   The paths of glory lead but to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8395]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had never felt it. To His humanity, His assumed flesh, it seemed terrible -- Gethsemane bears witness how terrible it seemed; but He passed into it for love of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3286]]></link><description><![CDATA[You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605   I am verily persuaded that the Lord has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605   I am verily persuaded that the Lord has more Truth yet to break forth out of His holy Word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the Condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a Period in Religion and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their Reformation. The Lutheran can't be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things... I beseech you, remember, 'tis an Article of your Church Covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever Truth shall be made known to you from the written Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item></channel></rss>