<?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 is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38361]]></link><description><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, which you would probably expect him to do. But he's getting more and more refined all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if he goes to prep school, I think he still wants to go to Syracuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if he goes to prep school, I think he still wants to go to Syracuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57255]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you decide to settle for less, you deprive yourself of opportunities to soar and make your life a blessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you decide to settle for less, you deprive yourself of opportunities to soar and make your life a blessing to others...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty action did outsell her gift, And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said  She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty action did outsell her gift, And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said  She prized it once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last five years we have seen a sea change in IT and telecoms infrastructure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last five years we have seen a sea change in IT and telecoms infrastructure,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62144]]></link><description><![CDATA[What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20850]]></link><description><![CDATA[God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CLOVER VEILA clover veil..violets the valeneith skies cloudclador when ultravioletsun prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19806]]></link><description><![CDATA[CLOVER VEILA clover veil..violets the valeneith skies cloudclador when ultravioletsun prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7099</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[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put me in charge of the project, I'll build them without putting in market-priced homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22222]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot  Ofttimes I hover;   And near the sacred gate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot  Ofttimes I hover;   And near the sacred gate,    With longing eyes I wait,     Expectant of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn about is fair play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn about is fair play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veilof our spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veilof our spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words the words that priest and soldier said, My deed the spear to desecrate the dead. And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night. Then Easter in my heart sends up the sun. My thoughts are Mary, when she turned to see, My words are Peter, answering, 'Lov'st thou me?' My deeds are all Thine own drawn close to Thee. And night and day, since thou dost rise, are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34933]]></link><description><![CDATA[She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Court hath no Almanack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Court hath no Almanack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave   Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud    Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard:     Where human folly sleeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming Pool, one of the busiest in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FOUR FLOWERSThe Sun Arosein Morning Glorywith His GoldenrodWanding Violetto Rose(to C and R Davisof Maryland). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4896]]></link><description><![CDATA[FOUR FLOWERSThe Sun Arosein Morning Glorywith His GoldenrodWanding Violetto Rose(to C and R Davisof Maryland).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61308]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,   May give a shock of pleasure to the frame    More exquisite than when nectarean juice     Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is running away without ever leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is running away without ever leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19001]]></link><description><![CDATA[One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19001</guid></item></channel></rss>