<?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[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more laws, the less justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more laws, the less justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,  Cum facias pejora senex?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to His mind and will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the biggest markets for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.      Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   The popular craving [for an English Bible] could not be stifled, and the sixteenth century saw the pioneering works of Tyndale and Coverdale; then, two years after Coverdale, the real "authorized version" appeared in 1537, when a mysterious translator called "Thomas Matthew" had his works not only dedicated to but licensed by Henry VIII. In the long run, what put the Bible into the hands of the common people was the influence exerted on public opinion and authority by the reformation of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14969]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10059]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Them that has, gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Them that has, gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38652]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It looks like we are going to keep this lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52248]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart to, or be taken in by, the values and pleasures off this passing world. He does not hesitate to use all that is good and beautiful and true, partly because he knows that his God gives him "richly all things to enjoy", and partly because he knows that in all life's impermanent beauties and pleasures, there is the promise of the real and permanent which he is thoroughly convinced will exceed his wildest expectations. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item></channel></rss>