<?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[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52158]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42160]]></link><description><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ever since we got here was to go to Salem. We were five minutes away. We can be tired all next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, andabundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, andabundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, theywill keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get inspired by what happened last Sunday in Hartford, then there's something wrong with you, ... That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get inspired by what happened last Sunday in Hartford, then there's something wrong with you, ... That fired me up to want to play well, starting today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be distressed; but He said, Thou shalt not be overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred,  For the same sound is in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57302]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred,  For the same sound is in my ears   Which in those days I heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What boots it on the lineal tree to trace Through many a branch the founders of our race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48985]]></link><description><![CDATA[What boots it on the lineal tree to trace Through many a branch the founders of our race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56596]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   They are slaves who dare not be    In the right with two or three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit,  Why is the principal conceal'd, for which  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit,  Why is the principal conceal'd, for which   You make this mighty stir?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17002]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62335]]></link><description><![CDATA[My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61707]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine and that by doing so it will force the Americans to take it seriously and give it a security role in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28496</guid></item></channel></rss>