<?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[Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17153]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family ticket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now   Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37827]]></link><description><![CDATA[While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most severely affected area in northern Illinois remains stubbornly dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48752]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28908]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55235]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vincent Van Gogh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64497]]></link><description><![CDATA[A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63580]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, butyour dream will not. Responsibilities need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, butyour dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need notobscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62620]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7439]]></link><description><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith  In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school,  By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful,"  Who ne'er said, "God be praised.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles   Some natures will endure an immense amount of misery before they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles   Some natures will endure an immense amount of misery before they feel compelled to look there for help whence all help and healing come. They cannot believe that there is verily an unseen, mysterious power, till the world and all that is in it has vanished in the smoke of despair; till cause and effect are nothing to the intellect, and possible glories have faded from the imagination. Then, deprived of all that made life pleasant or hopeful, the immortal essence, lonely and wretched and unable to cease, looks up with its now unfettered and wakened instinct to the source of its own life -- to the possible God who, notwithstanding all the improbabilities of His existence, may yet perhaps be, and may yet perhaps hear His wretched creature that calls. In this loneliness of despair, life must find The Life: for joy is gone, and life is all that is left; it is compelled to seek its source, its root, its eternal life. This alone remains a possible thing. Strange condition of despair into which the Spirit of God drives a man -- a condition in which the Best alone is the Possible!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  The Church has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  The Church has no mission of its own. All we can have by ourselves is a club or a debating society; and our only hope, left to ourselves, is to win as many members for our own club and away from other clubs as we can. And whatever this is, it is not Mission. Mission belongs to God. The Mission was His from the beginning; it is His; it will always be His. He has His purposes from the foundation of the world, and the means to fulfill them; and the only part the Church has in this is obedience -- a share in the eternal and life-giving obedience of the Son of God... And the most terrible judgment on the Church comes when God leaves us to our own devices because He is tired of waiting for our obedience -- leaves us to be the domestic chaplains to a comfortable secular world -- and goes Himself into the wilderness of human need and injustice and pain. This judgment does come on churches and nations, when they forget that God is in command, that He does the choosing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,    But an eternal now shall ever last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price.  (Falstaff:) I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44471]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price.  (Falstaff:) I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33005]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance to win every time out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item></channel></rss>