<?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[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947]]></link><description><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;   Sure John and I are more than quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are glad to have a football game. Anytime you open a season up, a lot of things can happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are glad to have a football game. Anytime you open a season up, a lot of things can happen. I don't think it matters who you play, in this situation, I think it's a great opportunity for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory or Westminister Abbey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory or Westminister Abbey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4943]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back onto our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here and see we have made some progress on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may be claim'd again which was but lent,   And should be yielded with no discontent,    Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,     That it was left us to enjoy it long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were absolutely aiming to capture that Sun Studio sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38520]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were absolutely aiming to capture that Sun Studio sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and suspend its functions when it opens the New Testament. It cannot make itself the slave of men, not even though the men are Peter and Paul and John; no, not even though it were the Son of Man Himself. It resents dictation, not willfully nor wantonly, but because it must; and it resents it all the more when it claims to be inspired. If, therefore, the Atonement can only be received by those who are prepared from the threshold to acknowledge the inspiration and the consequent authority of Scripture, it can never be received by modern men at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One that is neither flesh not fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16050]]></link><description><![CDATA[One that is neither flesh not fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17313]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39328]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's up to the veterans and the pitching coach to step in and not let that happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672]]></link><description><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672</guid></item></channel></rss>