<?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[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16944]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16944</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[Revenge is a dish best served cold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That was not Love that went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a month in town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15474]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11332]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach to 1st classthey really beat up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who do us none at all.   [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,    Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time discovers truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time discovers truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board   The old broken links of affection restored,    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,     And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.      What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?       What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun,   Or how fur we've gone in the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the members will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the members will continue their full commitment and co-operation to showcase international competition at its highest levels in racing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62620]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,   Now tell me if that any is.    For gift or grace, surpassing this--     "He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product lines and a modest ramp in demand for fluid handling equipment through the quarter and into December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12683]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017</guid></item></channel></rss>