<?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[Fortune and love favor the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune and love favor the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   But direct villainy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. "He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height." Nay, peace! I shall behold, before the night, The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame, The wounded hands, the weary human face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you why I suck as a sellman.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you why I suck as a sellman....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen onlyto the inner voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in a book! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in a book!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30289]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could be interpreted as offensive for one group or another is completely inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29515]]></link><description><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of win which they already had... The "Gospels" came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56813]]></link><description><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62375]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't play particularly well early in the game, but we were able to come back and play stronger in the third and fourth quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel no breezenor are they touched by a hand which frees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of athletes stepped up today. I think every point is going to be important this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of athletes stepped up today. I think every point is going to be important this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You stick in the same mire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51762]]></link><description><![CDATA[You stick in the same mire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52276]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard    Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--   A mystery of mysteries.    So he must often pause, and stoop,     An all the wanton ringlets loop      Behind her dainty ear--emprise       Of slow event and many sighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who treads softly goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21372]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who treads softly goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32009]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66651</guid></item></channel></rss>