<?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[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7074]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart is in this method of prayer; never beginning to pray, till you first see how matters stand with you; asking your heart what it wants, and having nothing in your prayers, but what the known state of your heart puts you upon demanding, saying, or offering, unto God. A quarter of an hour of this prayer, brings you out of your closet a new man; your heart feels the good of it; and every return of such a prayer, gives new life and growth to all your virtues, with more certainty, than the dew refreshes the herbs of the field: whereas, overlooking this true prayer of your own heart, and only at certain times taking a prayer that you find in a book, you have nothing to wonder at, if you are every day praying, and yet every day sinking further and further under all your infirmities. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone,  If they the book God had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54920]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone,  If they the book God had seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18297]]></link><description><![CDATA[You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold as any stone. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55950]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold as any stone. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7449]]></link><description><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their chivalry and valour. Often He underlines the difficulties of discipleship, warns us what it will cost, that it means risk and loss and sacrifice, and pulling hard against fierce currents; and then He turns and looks at us, with that honouring trust of His in us that sets the blood tingling and makes the cheeks flush with pride. That, He says quietly, is why I am so sure that you will come: you are too big to keep out of it! And, indeed, in His own day, it was only daring and adventurous spirits who would risk declaring for Him, as it is only daring and adventurous spirits still who have the pluck to try to follow so original and unpopular a Master in the real living-out of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?  They are leaning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?  They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,   And that cannot stop their tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could say that I am better this week than I was last week, but every day seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could say that I am better this week than I was last week, but every day seems to be getting a little bit more difficult. A little more challenging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54212]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think aboutfood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,  And with leaves and flowers do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,  And with leaves and flowers do cover   The friendless bodies of unburied men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of where we come from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31275]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of where we come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huns, wops, gooks, Japs..words to dehumanizeand demonize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huns, wops, gooks, Japs..words to dehumanizeand demonize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13740]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was encouraging for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39182]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was encouraging for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46453]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how different it is from one night to the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item></channel></rss>