<?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[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where your will is ready, your feete are light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her honeymoon, and that's priceless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off the bench and provide energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, I say that justice is truth in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, I say that justice is truth in action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The application has been withdrawn but that still does not take care of everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The application has been withdrawn but that still does not take care of everything,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and deprived hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but the anointing of the Holy Spirit can do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28031]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child correct behind and not before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. We have an opportunity here. We want to put a whole new face on dog racing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;   There, swan-like, let me sing and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029</guid></item></channel></rss>