<?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[And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself  From top of honor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself  From top of honor to disgrace's feet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's helped me a lot with my situational moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's helped me a lot with my situational moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was probably not as sharp as he normally is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was probably not as sharp as he normally is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;   That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead    In summer luxury--he has never done     With his delights, for when tired out with fun,      He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5826]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48326]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire is bound to hold. But while smiling at each other, both sides will continue making preparations for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the great thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/633]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the great thing to see is that God has accepted Christ. He took our sins upon Himself, died to make propitiation (the sacrifice which removed the anger of God) for them. But God raised Him from the dead and has taken Him up to glory. God has accepted Christ in token of His perfect satisfaction in His work. Believing this, the soul enters into peace. I simply rest in God’s thoughts about His son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7498]]></link><description><![CDATA[By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden-close;   Her tears, to the wind-flower,--his blood, to the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Times, despite having a pretty good strategy with regard to both print and online, has probably had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New York Times, despite having a pretty good strategy with regard to both print and online, has probably had some of the most sluggish ad revenue growth in the newspaper industry and at the same time has incurred more cost increases than its peers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the Turkish nation killed by Armenians,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15715]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to bewilling to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going tothe top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12598]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27215]]></link><description><![CDATA[You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially on defense in the first half against everyone we play, we try to use our feet to get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially on defense in the first half against everyone we play, we try to use our feet to get into the right positions and we did that very well as a team. The whole team really jelled together in this game on defense. We didn't allow Elma to have a whole lot of open looks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4091]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  The world would use us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34929]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34929</guid></item></channel></rss>