<?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[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there's not much mystery. It will be a matter of who out-executes whom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle wine cellar. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle wine cellar. But the sky is the limit if money is no problem. There are wine cellars . . . in the $100,000-plus range. Whatever you build, plan on spending $3 to $5 per bottle of wine for racking with a quality wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gaine is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray  Or paint the full-orb'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray  Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies   With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11079]]></link><description><![CDATA[In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't let him [Smith] out of the pocket. We got a good push up the field. He wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37431]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't let him [Smith] out of the pocket. We got a good push up the field. He wasn't going to run anywhere. That is pretty much what we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  "The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  "The clergy," says Canon Rhymes, "are called to give to the laity the benefit of their theological understanding and so help them to account for and understand the faith which is in them." But surely there is no point in trying to account for faith: the moment it is accounted for rationally, it is no longer faith. Those whose hearts are filled with the Christian spirit... are best left to proclaim the Gospel in their own words and, above all, through the example of their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1049]]></link><description><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds,  And ceaseless caws amusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds,  And ceaseless caws amusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41319]]></link><description><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting the guys in Houston get out safely. Things definitely happen for a reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23308</guid></item></channel></rss>