<?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[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11814]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may forget the days of your anniversary or the loved ones birthday, but please don't forget those people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may forget the days of your anniversary or the loved ones birthday, but please don't forget those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can come in and get 20 points, at any given time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can come in and get 20 points, at any given time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters of Horror ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters of Horror]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adjusted. I haven't heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adjusted. I haven't heard of any downward adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives most dies most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49373]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives most dies most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know about those countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know about those countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae  Tempora di superi?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63323]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was more convinced than ever that the preaching like an Apostle, without joining together those that are awakened and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was more convinced than ever that the preaching like an Apostle, without joining together those that are awakened and training them up in the ways of God, is only begetting children for the murderer. How much preaching has there been for these twenty years all over Pembrokeshire! But no regular societies, no discipline, no order or connection; and the consequence is, that nine in ten of the once-awakened are now faster asleep than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the black of my midnight you're the star for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45654]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the black of my midnight you're the star for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are looking for reasons to sell the dollar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28442]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are looking for reasons to sell the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready with my candies and my rockets and praying to Allah that Sharon dies. We have prepared a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28324]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready with my candies and my rockets and praying to Allah that Sharon dies. We have prepared a celebratory barrage of rockets ready to fire into Israel on the occasion of the death of our enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow as a coach everyday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle people have the least leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle people have the least leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good fishing before the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good fishing before the net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no difference, there is only indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, it's better than sitting there watching this tiny mosquito grow larger on your arm. I don't know that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31209]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, it's better than sitting there watching this tiny mosquito grow larger on your arm. I don't know that he gains much by pulling out now. But he definitely stops hemorrhaging of public opinion against this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31209</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[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item></channel></rss>