<?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[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42042]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be timely wise;   With health all taste of pleasure flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They had been in the Presence of God and they reported what they saw there. They were prophets, not scribes: for the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen, there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes; but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of labor is to gain leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of labor is to gain leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,   And crying havoc on the slug and snail.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30586]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may rezoloot till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10528]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may rezoloot till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even get the charge. He was falling before I even got there. When a rookie ref gets put in that situation -- somebody who weighs 215 going against somebody who weighs 165 -- it's an obvious call to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good phases, and for me the test was satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast   The sun ariseth in his majesty;    Who doth the world so gloriously behold     That cedar tops and hills seem burnished gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. If we do, we'll make school history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oliver Twist has asked for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oliver Twist has asked for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's love, it's love that makes the world go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drowning man is not troubled by rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drowning man is not troubled by rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The global atmosphere is still unclear and the local picture is also generating some tensions. The near-term outlook for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The global atmosphere is still unclear and the local picture is also generating some tensions. The near-term outlook for the market is not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38325]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to it. The great thing about [Jo] is that she can take what's thrown her way and handle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shamrock came along at a great time for the Miami Dolphins. I was looking for another option for our players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shamrock came along at a great time for the Miami Dolphins. I was looking for another option for our players that was nicer than your typical extended stay, but not as expensive as a corporate apartment. Shamrock proved to be the best of both worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46530</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[Though old and wise, yet still advise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steelin his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21833]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steelin his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65087</guid></item></channel></rss>