<?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[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie   Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59968]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough,but in getting out after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough,but in getting out after you are in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of the devil, and his horns appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of the devil, and his horns appear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world's passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more -- love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61247]]></link><description><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47534]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going to be prepared to do mop-up duty.' I don't think we would have won. I think they would have had an unprepared quarterback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/645]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54592]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not want to provoke a frontal confrontation between the students and the military because if that happens, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not want to provoke a frontal confrontation between the students and the military because if that happens, the whole society loses because it would only lead to more anarchical violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33547</guid></item></channel></rss>