<?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[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59488]]></link><description><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29429]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, he chose to live here, he wrote in French. It's why we're here, French and Irish together, to pay tribute to this great man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35088]]></link><description><![CDATA[To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of Jesus Christ, we are grateful. Let us be inspired to walk in His presence and leave our children the same faith and hope of a home beyond the grave -- a house not made by hands but eternal in the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28580]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber bullets to save my life,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    The principle of sacrifice is that we choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    The principle of sacrifice is that we choose to do or to suffer what apart from our love we should not choose to do or to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55591]]></link><description><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest time,   And that is sure to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55214]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47186]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God our Life and King Has given us light and spring and morning breaking Now may man's soul arise as kinsman to the skies, And God unseals his eyes to an awaking. Sing, creatures, sing; the dust that lives by lure and lust Is kindled by the thrust of life undying; This hope our Master bare has made all fortunes fair, And man can on and dare, his death defying. After the winter snows a wind of healing blows, And thorns put forth a rose, and lilies cheer us; Life's everlasting spring has robbed death of his sting, Henceforth a cry can bring our Master near us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Among the demands attributed to Lopez in the gossip pages: a dressing room fitted out with white orchids, white walls, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42490]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Among the demands attributed to Lopez in the gossip pages: a dressing room fitted out with white orchids, white walls, a white sofa and an endless stock of Evian-room-temperature only, thank you. So when Lopez went AWOL in winter 2000, the warnings seemed prophetic.] I lost track of her, ... It was a huge job, and all the meetings were either rescheduled or canceled. I thought, 'This is going to be very difficult.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to get as much experience as possible. A lot of teams have played 15 or 16 games already. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to get as much experience as possible. A lot of teams have played 15 or 16 games already. We've played four. We're still moving people around and trying to find the right mix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53331]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything depends on political developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything depends on political developments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23380]]></link><description><![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57936]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57936</guid></item></channel></rss>