<?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[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque il se defend.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he know neither the place where nor the time when he was so; and so may he that is spiritually alive, and hath ground of evidence that he is so, that he was born again, though he know neither when, nor where, nor how. And this case is usual in persons of quiet natural tempers, who have had the advantage of education under means of light and grace. God ofttimes, in such persons, begins and carries on the work of his grace insensibly, so that they come to good growth and maturity before they know that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27403]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For everything else, there is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63231]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For everything else, there is an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12958]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices by our employees, strong revenue performance and the benefit of our fuel hedging program enabled us to be one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices by our employees, strong revenue performance and the benefit of our fuel hedging program enabled us to be one of only a couple of major airlines that posted a significant adjusted profit for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31120]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin. It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin. It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles W. Mayo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through."  I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along:   But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong.    One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away,     And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say      Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do,       You get somebody else or wait till I get through."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels, health and well-being more than we realize. Every thought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels, health and well-being more than we realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner energy reserves. Mother Teresa There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution Heartfelt positive feelings create far more than a healthy psychological effect. They fortify our internal energy systems and nourish the body right down to the cellular level. For that reason, we like to think of these emotions as "quantum nutrients." Gary Zukav (as quoted in -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less chapter is a fruitless chapter. Prayer spells all the difference between working for God in our own strength and wisdom or being fellow laborers together with Him in the work that He is seeking to do in the University.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers, but being young and having somebody like a director like Michael see me, and see something in me, and take a chance. And have a process like we have had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do. They're really making an effort in this campaign to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42443]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do. They're really making an effort in this campaign to reach out to all groups in society, and really show that they're both parties of diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really cares about South Florida, ... He took charge and took care of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really cares about South Florida, ... He took charge and took care of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, [It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume  Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro   Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12117</guid></item></channel></rss>