<?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[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55263]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55972]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,   Full on thy bloom,    Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight     Shall be thy doom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is he scoring, he's also become very important for the team. And I think he can even still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is he scoring, he's also become very important for the team. And I think he can even still improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then my dial goes not true; I look this lark for a bunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then my dial goes not true; I look this lark for a bunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever you go,   May the beautiful palms of Allah grow;    Through days of labor, and nights of rest,     The love of Good Allah make you blest;      So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do,       May the peace of Allah abide with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our biggest concern is needing to refuel along the way in North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia, without being able to find any gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is a man's invention and his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose that all sick men desire to be restored to perfect health; yet experience shows us, that nothing wants more to be pressed, repeated, and forced upon our minds, than the plainest rules of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to continue the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28615]]></link><description><![CDATA[to continue the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow at a faster rate than the overall market so I'd expect more consolidation online.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- and a significant one at that. Only people who know about this contest through the radio station or the paper will be able to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden suffering;    And then, to go to sleep;     And then, if it should be      The will of its Inquisitor,       The liberty to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.  Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24728]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511]]></link><description><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,   Whose ear is ever open, and his eye    Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is not actively and objectively "there" in the place of power, irrespective of whether he is acknowledged or not, we should give up hope of our own rising, and of Jesus' public return, and admit that the idea of churches and Christians being sustained by the Spirit-giving energy of a living Lord was never more than a pleasing illusion. And, in that case, we ought frankly to affirm that, though the New Testament is an amazing witness to the religious creativity of the human spirit, its actual message is more wrong than right, more misleading than helpful; and we must reconstruct our gospel accordingly. Only a weak, muddled, or cowardly mind will hesitate to do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51090]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a confession of pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a confession of pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11929]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,   'Tis sweethearts of glory,    'Tis lads who are unafraid!     Ferryman ho!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218</guid></item></channel></rss>