<?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[They asked me why we were open, I said it was pressure from the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39705]]></link><description><![CDATA[They asked me why we were open, I said it was pressure from the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55335]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap,  And she will sing the song that pleaseth you   And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,    Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness,     Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep      As is the difference betwixt day and night       The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team        Begins his golden progress in the east.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports betting is going to continue to steadily grow. Some market analysts suggest a 10-20% growth per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports betting is going to continue to steadily grow. Some market analysts suggest a 10-20% growth per year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls that they may seek you and rule your creation, teach us so to investigate the works of your hand that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen our intelligence for your service. And grant that we may so receive your Word as to believe in him whom you sent to give us the science of salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. All this we ask in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36574]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969]]></link><description><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... -Proverbs 14:17a. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... -Proverbs 14:17a.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele:  Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele:  Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,   Consistencie's a jewell.    For thee and me coarse cloathes are best,     Rude folks in homelye raiment drest,      Wife Joan and goodman Robin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto,  And putting us to ignorance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57277]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto,  And putting us to ignorance again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No new troops were added, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271]]></link><description><![CDATA[No new troops were added,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55421]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13211]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but a mule denies his family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15177]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but a mule denies his family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on sin:  It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on sin:  It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29515]]></link><description><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11497</guid></item></channel></rss>