<?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[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45134]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53131]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing as a reason for striking a juror that, "I have a P rule, I never accept anyone whose occupation begins with a P. He is a pipeline operator." This is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58732]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals, never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. Any attempts to hide behind the excuse that it is too difficult, when what we mean is that its word is too hard for us to bear, meets the just remark of a pastor from Communist Germany: "How can they say that the Bible is difficult, when young Communists are poring over much more difficult and much more technical literature to discover what Communism is all about?" Sometimes the Biblical teaching is crystal-clear, but we dare not understand it. The Christian Church has a vested interest in its present forms, and Christian people, like others, have their pleasant prejudices. This unwillingness to hear some new thing, except in times of great disturbance, plays a bigger part in weakening the voice of God through the Bible than we are prepared to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens,  Made them with the fur side inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44606]]></link><description><![CDATA[He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens,  Made them with the fur side inside,   Made them with the skin side outside.    He, to get the warm side inside,     Put the inside skin side outside;      He, to get the cold side outside,       Put the warm side fur side inside.        That's why he put the fur side inside,         Why he put the skin side outside,          Why he turned them inside outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5448]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't see anybody that looked like survivors. I didn't see anybody at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25341]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just happy that they're here with me and we get to play one more last game on the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just happy that they're here with me and we get to play one more last game on the same side of the ball before we part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and its happening in an industry that's changing very rapidly where justice delayed is justice denied, ... All the elements are in place for them to take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60273]]></link><description><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere God made us he loved us; which love never slackened, nor ever shall be. And in this love he hath done all his works; and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning; in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,    And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11415</guid></item></channel></rss>