<?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[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12965]]></link><description><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .   Poems are made by fools like me,    But only God can make a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13415]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are people out there that are going to pick up on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, in a variety of ways, particularly for the singers. It often goes from spoken word to singing without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31582]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, in a variety of ways, particularly for the singers. It often goes from spoken word to singing without a pause or transition. It takes a lot of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35593]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people will be left after the retirements take place, they won't know how much money GM will have to pay to subsidize the wages and benefits for its former workers who are left at Delphi, once the new pay scales are implemented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6060]]></link><description><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45098]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total misunderstanding. The whole Bible proclaims the need for, and the achievement of, a salvation that will remake creation, and it is just such a salvation, at once supernatural and historical, that was won on Easter Day. If the Resurrection narratives are [merely] a subtle way of convincing us that God still loves us, or that there is a life beyond death, they must be reckoned among the oddest and most ill-conceived stories ever written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    In that immortal copy     The conscience of us all      Can read without its glasses       On revelation's wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to stop there. To Tunisia, classical diplomacy is not enough. We also want to base our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28244]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to stop there. To Tunisia, classical diplomacy is not enough. We also want to base our actions and relations with the foreign market on private diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the third quarter, analysts are bringing their estimates down again, but not by as much as normal. Analysts have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the third quarter, analysts are bringing their estimates down again, but not by as much as normal. Analysts have caught on and adjusted their models accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's changed, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's changed, and it gives the place a more updated look. It's very fresh looking and seems to be brighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky  On Friday, clamour and display Smote Him; no solitude had He. No silence, since Gethsemane. Public was death; but power, but might,  But life again, but victory, Were hushed within the dead of night,  The shuttered dark, the secrecy. And all alone, alone, alone He rose again behind the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as there is life, there is danger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11050]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as there is life, there is danger]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter if we're counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32781]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter if we're counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home safely at the end of the day. We are proud of our employees who are dedicated and vigilant when it comes to safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks  A various language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks  A various language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43794</guid></item></channel></rss>