<?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[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit, ... It was kind of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit, ... It was kind of a bummer last year to get DQ for that. Things happen, but that's racing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53816]]></link><description><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love at all....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite all of this, we continue to be cautiously optimistic on developing Asia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite all of this, we continue to be cautiously optimistic on developing Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken on that look know where it's coming from. I'm not saying we invented it -- we drew influence from the Damned and the Misfits -- but it wasn't very popular when we started doing it. It's strange, but if you start worrying about stuff like that, it becomes less about being a songwriter and more about trying to control what's going on in some kind of scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel found no further justification to keep me in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel found no further justification to keep me in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, don't advertise where they are and who they are. The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7150]]></link><description><![CDATA[See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   With that deep voice which from the skies    Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice.     God's angel, cries, Forbear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boy, I feel bad, ... There's so much I want to show you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boy, I feel bad, ... There's so much I want to show you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25126]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--   He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.    [Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,     Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte      Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,       Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we the next game we just burned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34988]]></link><description><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, to meet the demand of strong sales, we were able to quickly increase capacity in our plants without affecting our margins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies,   Till the dappled dawn doth rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075]]></link><description><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26193]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345]]></link><description><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!   This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there    The columns of the heavenly palaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me   And my soul is in Cathay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little strokes fell great oaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little strokes fell great oaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing. And I think that's what our concern was. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36874]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing. And I think that's what our concern was. We're not trying to tell Auburn who should be the chief executive officer. (We're) asking them to go ahead and make decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36874</guid></item></channel></rss>