<?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 want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so great a figure   Be stamped upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change theirmotive to service in order to change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34939]]></link><description><![CDATA[a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. That's what we'll need this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36102]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids have a lot of heart, and our goalkeeper (Patch Skinner) is playing with a lot of heart at the goal. He's going to give it his all if the players in front of him do. We have just one shot to shock the Silver Division, and we want to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, giveme liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, giveme liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can ever defeat the Afghans(in Rambeau 3). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can ever defeat the Afghans(in Rambeau 3).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characters attend a lot of balls in the book so this made the book more interesting. It's been the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characters attend a lot of balls in the book so this made the book more interesting. It's been the most confusing book I've read for a long time. I don't understand the time period or the customs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43993]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking men cannot be ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking men cannot be ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are extremely excited about our opportunity in Indianapolis. You can see why anyone in the banking business would be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are extremely excited about our opportunity in Indianapolis. You can see why anyone in the banking business would be. Our sweet spot in business is really small- and mid-market-type business lending in addition to retail banking. Indianapolis has seen a lot of growth in small businesses. That's where our growth will come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item></channel></rss>