<?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[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throughout the year. It seems like more and more people are catching on that he came here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa    Juxta crucem lacrymosa     Que pendebat Filius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the child of audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the child of audacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12736]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14446]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll always be poor in my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll always be poor in my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57256]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,    She loves me dearly:     She is so constant to me, and so kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aim is to survive and we need to beat West Brom. There will be big pressure on us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aim is to survive and we need to beat West Brom. There will be big pressure on us to win and we have to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God and woman,   For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,    Though the world's throne stood open in my path,     I would go wandering back into my childhood,      Searching for them with tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46947]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38061]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to repair asphalt rather than concrete roads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19498]]></link><description><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His death impacted many people, ... He enjoyed life to the fullest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33031]]></link><description><![CDATA[His death impacted many people, ... He enjoyed life to the fullest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as we are men. But we do not ordinarily apply it to the best purposes. It is not so ordinary for men to resolve to be good as to resolve to be rich and great, not so common for men to resolve against sin as to resolve against poverty and suffering. It is not so usual for men to resolve to keep a good conscience as to keep a good place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued to God and His will is going to be found in the areas of money, sex, and power: in wanting these things for ourselves. The surest symbol of spiritual earnestness will be the checkbook, the affections, and the ego-drive surrendered to Him. A disciple must have discipline. He must not be afraid of being asked by God for some of the time, the money, and the pleasure he has been in the habit of calling his "own". This does not mean that there will not be time for the family, and time for some healthy diversion. But it does mean that we are never -- on vacation, or wherever we may be -- exempt from our primary commitment to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6572</guid></item></channel></rss>