<?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[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,  And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings   His soul and body to their lasting rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39785]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to know each other and become good friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21149]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred withlove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54919]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66513]]></link><description><![CDATA[My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30055]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20951]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid affection live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, there's a couple of guys, and we've been trying to watch some tape work on things and he came through. He wrestled his butt off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1357]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38034]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure on the unemployment rate, forcing it to continue to rise. By summer, we could have 6.4 percent unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are no substitute for judgment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are no substitute for judgment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495]]></link><description><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teachesyou a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21596</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[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8634]]></link><description><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan,  They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us,   And forget us till another year be gone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   There are great limits upon the human imagination. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   There are great limits upon the human imagination. We can only rearrange the elements God has provided. No one can create a new primary color, a third sex, a fourth dimension, or a completely original animal. Even by writing a book, planting a garden, or begetting a child, we never create anything in the strict sense; we only take part in God's creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still learning how to run. He's not really comfortable reading blocks, or getting that pre-snap read. He's still a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32763]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still learning how to run. He's not really comfortable reading blocks, or getting that pre-snap read. He's still a beginner as far as that goes, as far as using his eyes. The say a great runner has vision. He has all the tools, but he's still learning to use that vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to affect any one service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item></channel></rss>