<?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[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than I can see, Mother! In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, What is it?' The young Mole said, It is a pebble. His Mother exclaimed: My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale   With envy of each other's happiness,    May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction     Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord      In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance       His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the thought of owning their own business to the same cognitive level as other more popular career choices, ... Our children are our future, and since more than 50 percent of new jobs come from small business, it is imperative that we encourage today's children to be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55629]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot;  If that wherein my hopes delight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot;  If that wherein my hopes delight   Be best or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctors gave her over--to an ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctors gave her over--to an ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is extremely significant. It is our first step into long-running TV drama production, and it could lead the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32059]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is extremely significant. It is our first step into long-running TV drama production, and it could lead the way for more to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in the great purpose of all things, and pressing forward to finish the work which is in sight, whatever the price may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66387]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out -- outsized and outspeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to Karl that Interior is about to approve a gaming compact and land in trust for a tribe which is an anathema to all our supporters down there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the Street does not fully appreciate the risks associated with the company's two lead programs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41854]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the Street does not fully appreciate the risks associated with the company's two lead programs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41854</guid></item></channel></rss>