<?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[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48284]]></link><description><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40202]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5065]]></link><description><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19039]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'll be a solid number, but it won't post the 8.2 percent growth we saw for the third quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'll be a solid number, but it won't post the 8.2 percent growth we saw for the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46086]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54293]]></link><description><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos did really well in the Vuelta and he fully deserves his spot on the podium. He's an all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos did really well in the Vuelta and he fully deserves his spot on the podium. He's an all round rider and it's great to see him prove it with a nice result such as this. It takes a lot to achieve a podium spot in the Vuelta, and I think he's been one of the prominent riders in this race - just as we as a team have been up front in nearly all stages. We took a brilliant stage victory, and with a little luck we could've taken a couple more. On the whole I'm very satisfied with the efforts delivered by everyone. Our aim was to get a good result overall and try for a stage win along the way, and we've achieved both. The team has worked perfectly and everyone down here in and around the team deserve big credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;   Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:    Let not my sister read it in your eye;     Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;      Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty;       Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;        Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;         Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;          Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are safe in their number and their close array. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50519]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are safe in their number and their close array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   But the word 'temple' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   But the word 'temple' took on a deeper significance when Jesus referred to His own body as 'this temple.' He thus definitely declared Himself to be the personal embodiment of the living God. Later the Apostle Paul applied this term to Christians... "Ye are God's building... Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" And again, "What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?" Paul taught that it is God's people who constitute the true church of God, and wherever they have fellowship in the Gospel, God is there. Moreover, he emphasized that as members of this true church it is our privilege to be "laborers together with God." It is our privilege to build upon the one foundation, Jesus Christ, with gold, silver, precious stones -- the kind of Christian service which abides for recognition at the judgment seat of Christ. Again, it is our responsibility to be consecrated for holy living and faithful service, "for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; so we must shun evil, and, since we have been bought with a price, we must glorify God in body and spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one in the sense of this world's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60432]]></link><description><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God be thank'd that the dead have left still Good undone for the living to do--  Still some aim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62132]]></link><description><![CDATA[God be thank'd that the dead have left still Good undone for the living to do--  Still some aim for the heart and the will   And the soul of a man to pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21128]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are bychanging what goes into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749</guid></item></channel></rss>