<?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[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61335]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee with classic shores to vie   In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye;    Yet hast thou scenes of beauty richly fraught     With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you gather your people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you:  you are gentle with us as a mother with her children; Often you weep over our sins and our pride:  tenderly you draw us from hatred and judgement. You comfort us in sorrow and bind up our wounds:  in sickness you nurse us,  and with pure milk you feed us. Jesus, by your dying we are born to new life:  by your anguish and labour we come forth in joy. Despair turns to hope through your sweet goodness:  through your gentleness we find comfort in fear. Your warmth gives life to the dead:  your touch makes sinners righteous. Lord Jesus, in your mercy heal us:  in your love and tenderness remake us. In your compassion bring grace and forgiveness:  for the beauty of heaven may your love prepare us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32084]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5797]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20314]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37872]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you had the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53636]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up a combined 17 per cent from a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon,  Night and all her stars;   'Twixt the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48359]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon,  Night and all her stars;   'Twixt the east and western bars    Round they journey,     Come and go!      We go with them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I turn on my computer. I wait patiently as it connects. I go online. My breath catches in my chest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I turn on my computer. I wait patiently as it connects. I go online. My breath catches in my chest until I hear 3 little words, "You've got mail." I hear nothing, not a sound on the streets of New York. Just the beat of my own heart. I have mail...from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37054]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ as well as providing training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3688</guid></item></channel></rss>