<?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[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few minds wear out; more rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22788]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity and religion -- people of all types experience it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a Christian has a strong sense of his individuality, never of his unity with God. Expressed more sharply, he has a strong sense of the Creator-creature distinction, never of merging or absorption. Or, to put it more sharply still, a Christian has a sense of his moral sin and not just of his metaphysical smallness in the face of the beyond. The dilemma for man is not who he is but what he has done. His predicament is not that he is small, but that he is sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set of attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is death without the consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is death without the consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing months. The longer this goes on, the more pressure on candidates from both parties to discuss how they will clean up the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a Tartar] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a Tartar]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66261]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have declared that Syria is innocent of this crime, and I am ready to follow up action to bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have declared that Syria is innocent of this crime, and I am ready to follow up action to bring to trial any Syrian who could be proved by concrete evidence to have had connection with this crime,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he's in the conditioning room for an hour and he's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30297]]></link><description><![CDATA[He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he's in the conditioning room for an hour and he's just rolling in to the clubhouse when the game is over. He's put in that much work to maintain his body. He doesn't take his body for granted. That's why he's so good. That's why he's had longevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever envies another confesses his superiority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18463]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50870]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas   Aux cadrans de ce monde.]   - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   The kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power, the power of Godliness. Though now we are fallen upon another method, we have turned all religion into faith, and our faith is nothing but the production of interest or disputing; it is adhering to a party and a wrangling against all the world beside--and when it is asked of what religion he is, we understand the meaning to be what faction does he follow, what are the articles of his sect, not what is the manner of his life: and if men be zealous for their party and that interest, then they are precious men, though otherwise they be covetous as the grave, factious as Dathan, schismatical as Korah, or proud as the fallen angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34197]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some big steals and we were able to capitalize on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38428</guid></item></channel></rss>