<?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[He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.(on the spartan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57573]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48839]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39994]]></link><description><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud to help make China's rich musical history accessible for the first time to scholars, students and fans of Chinese culture around the globe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54868]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38595]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47759]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40332]]></link><description><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and even jeering from other fans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62103]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26442]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working on getting balanced scoring. We've been preaching it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting balanced scoring. We've been preaching it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62395</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[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25357]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my hope that the 2006 Season of Justice will not only be a time to raise awareness on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29044]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my hope that the 2006 Season of Justice will not only be a time to raise awareness on our campus and in our community about justice issues around the world, but also a time for spiritual growth. It is our belief, and the belief of IJM, that God cares deeply about justice. As Christians, we are called to seek God and to do that fully we must also seek justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item></channel></rss>