<?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[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us most; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us most; doubtless Christ has many ways of drawing men to Himself. One side of Christ's work will appeal most to one mind, another to another. The mistake that is often made by those who speak most about Christian experience is that they are so apt to insist upon everyone else's experience -- on penalty of its utter worthlessness -- being exactly the same as their own. The great thing is that we should be attracted by Christ in some way, that we should come to God in that spirit of penitence which Christ taught was the one condition of acceptance with Him, and with that steady purpose of amendment which is, as he always taught, a part of true penitence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought back bodies of living men,   But their eyes were fold and dead.    So, Buddy no matter what else the fame,     No matter what else the prize,      I want you to come back thru The Flame       With the boy-look still in your eyes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the end try the man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the end try the man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of badtraining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of badtraining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;   Then rose again and bowed her to the people;    When by the Archbishop of Canterbury     She had all the royal makings of a queen,      As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,       The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems        Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir         With all the choicest music of the kingdom          Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted           And with the same full state packed back again            To York Place, where the feast is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12472]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In chusing a wife, and buying a sword, we ought not to trust another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49535]]></link><description><![CDATA[In chusing a wife, and buying a sword, we ought not to trust another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65077]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59526]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded, ... Of course, it would've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40104]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded, ... Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2232]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49571]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a three run error on the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32147]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a three run error on the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and to shape its own beliefs. In all right efforts for the future, religion must be given first place. No provision to secure peace or just social principles can be worth much unless the foremost aim be to establish the Kingdom of God. It is not the minds and bodies only of generations to come that have to be remembered, but their immortal souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37735]]></link><description><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56797</guid></item></channel></rss>