<?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[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just seems like the last three or four days I've been able to keep my legs under me and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35265]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just seems like the last three or four days I've been able to keep my legs under me and kind of drive the ball. It's been a long time since I've had six hits and none of them have been singles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How he in peace is wounded, not in war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How he in peace is wounded, not in war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state -- destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds cut diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds cut diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At our wittes end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At our wittes end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29964]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have a set list and program the whole show, ... but if it's not working, it's not working. You need to be able to adjust your set and be flexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and guests smell after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and guests smell after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appeared to have died on the night of June 11 after he was hog-tied and separated from the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appeared to have died on the night of June 11 after he was hog-tied and separated from the rest of the hostages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mischief is done the door is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50532]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mischief is done the door is shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice was to stay a million miles away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33264]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice was to stay a million miles away from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33264</guid></item></channel></rss>