<?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 inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be the biggest pipeline built in the last 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be the biggest pipeline built in the last 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60120]]></link><description><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20354]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The asses' bridge. [Lat., Pons Asinorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The asses' bridge. [Lat., Pons Asinorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52191]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51514]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?   Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31522]]></link><description><![CDATA[[After the hearing, Adams spoke to reporters.] This is a time of grief and mourning for the courthouse community, ... We're going to respect that. There will be plenty of time for us later to lay out our legal arguments and examine the evidence and search for answers in this case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   O eternal God, who from all eternity dost behold and love thy own glories and perfections infinite, and hast created me to do the work of God after the manner of men, and to serve thee in this generation and according to my capacities, give me thy grace, that I may be a curious and prudent spender of my time, so as I may best prevent or resist all temptation, and be profitable to the Christian commonwealth, and, by discharging all my duty, may glorify thy name. Take from me all slothfulness, and give me a diligent and an active spirit, and wisdom to choose my employment; that I may do works proportionable to my person and to the dignity of a Christian, and may fill up all the spaces of my time with actions of religion and charity; that, when the devil assaults me, he may not find me idle; and my dearest Lord, at his sudden coming, may find me busy in lawful, necessary, and pious actions, improving my talent entrusted to me by thee, my Lord; that I may enter into the joy of my Lord, to partake of his eternal felicities, even for thy mercy's sake, and for my dearest Saviour's sake. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19556]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62860]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of meeting has tremendous value and importance because it brings the community together to talk about the issues. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of meeting has tremendous value and importance because it brings the community together to talk about the issues. We're not here to point fingers ... (but) to look at data and see what's happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,  As, darkly painted on the crimson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,  As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,   Thy figure floats along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education were of marvelous service to him. More learned, the formal logic of the schools would have robbed him of that flower of simplicity which is the great charm of his life; he would have seen the whole extent of the sore of the Church, and would no doubt have despaired of healing it. If he had known ecclesiastical discipline, he would have felt obliged to observe it; but, thanks to his ignorance, he could often violate it without knowing it, and be a heretic quite unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6280</guid></item></channel></rss>