<?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[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   And by 'knowledge' here [II Peter 1:2,5,8;2:20;3:18] is not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   And by 'knowledge' here [II Peter 1:2,5,8;2:20;3:18] is not to be understood a mere theoretical knowledge of the truths of Christianity, or the gnosis of the Gnostics; but a realization of these truths influencing the practice and leading to holiness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12251]]></link><description><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and since too, murders have been performed   Too terrible for the ear. The time has been    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,     And there an end. But now they rise again,      With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,       And push us from our stools. This is more strange        Than such a murder is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found in his increasing agony of effort a token of divine approval. Not along this track lies the path of moral progress. Christianity says: face the evil once for all, and disown it. Then quiet the spirit in the presence of God. Let His perfections fill the field of vision. In particular, let the concrete embodiment of the goodness of God in Christ attract and absorb the gaze of the soul. Here is the righteousness, not as a fixed and abstract ideal, but in a living human person. The righteousness of Christ is a real achievement of God's own Spirit in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47415]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And bid them speak for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long career for her. She can make a lot more money out of (tennis) rather than in tennis."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The improved capabilities of 3G networks and devices combined with the availability of more compelling multimedia content are clearly accelerating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The improved capabilities of 3G networks and devices combined with the availability of more compelling multimedia content are clearly accelerating user adoption. We have entered an exciting phase of rapid evolution in the mobile market. To profit from this new demand, carriers and content owners will need to analyze early consumer behavior and attitudes carefully so that they can continue to build consumer trial and repeat usage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,   And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need    Of aid from them--she was the Universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36849]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33695]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the largest possible consensus. We have our own agenda. We need to conduct open talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can have patience can have what he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can have patience can have what he will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want, the mistress of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want, the mistress of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of this was true. There were no flights. There were no children being rescued. There were no medical supplies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28786]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of this was true. There were no flights. There were no children being rescued. There were no medical supplies being flown. There was no 7-month-old baby who needed a transplant. In fact, he didn't even have a pilot's license,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23817]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49020]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527</guid></item></channel></rss>