<?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[I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains may break; But the deaf heart, the dumb by choice, The laggard soul that will not wake, The guilt that scorns to be forgiven -- These baffle e'en the spells of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16908]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. -Samuel Johnson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16984]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the mine is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am shocked that this is happening in the U.S. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am shocked that this is happening in the U.S.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29750]]></link><description><![CDATA[were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly. The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third floor suffered extensive fire damage and is a total loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might,  Not stepping o'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42914]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might,  Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best and the brightest to Ottawa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need a check back for Faith and Family for $150K.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training session, so we'll wait until we see how our blokes pull up tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief  In war and one the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief  In war and one the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;   So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.   - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17143]]></link><description><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;  When our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18151]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;  When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?   No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item></channel></rss>