<?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[His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42043]]></link><description><![CDATA[His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder of the eagle were the less,   But he not less the eagle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16008]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24994]]></link><description><![CDATA[All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46201]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   From out of the sunset-lands,    So bountiful, so merciful,     So sweet of soul is she;      And over all the world she draws       Her cloak of charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes implemented by the AHL last season were successful in increasing the flow of the game and generating additional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes implemented by the AHL last season were successful in increasing the flow of the game and generating additional offensive opportunities, and the NHL's recent revisions in their own rules package will further enhance the quality of our sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds  In loveliness of perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds  In loveliness of perfect deeds,   More strong than all poetic thoughts;    Which he may read that binds the sheaf,     Or builds the house, or digs the grave,      And those wild eyes that watch the waves       In roarings round the coral reef.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the truth in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the truth in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi,   And something from "Palpiti!"    Sing forte when first you begin it,     Piano the very next minute,      They'll cry "What expression there's in it!"       Don't sing English ballads to me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781</guid></item></channel></rss>