<?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 things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42744]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less strange the prodigal should waste   His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit -- such a Confession, such a Worship, as the past contains only a dim shadow of -- we have a right to look for. It may come when we least expect it; it will probably come after a period of darkness, fierce contention, utter disbelief. But the confession will only be united when we cease to confound our feeble expressions of trust and affiance, our praises and adorations, with Him to whom they rise, from whom they proceed; when we are brought to nothingness, that He may be shown to be all in all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. If the lake level falls another foot, the city will have to implement mandatory water conservation measures, which have not been done since the drought of 1988.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47489]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving liberty than saving Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30631]]></link><description><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings, ... In the end the consumer wins, in terms of choice, product quality and affordability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressedourselves to this problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His body just can't take it any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42090]]></link><description><![CDATA[His body just can't take it any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If you go to the left you are sure to be right,   If you go to the right you are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   Outward as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46186]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I criticize by creation--not by finding fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I criticize by creation--not by finding fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man could have of his own, then we should have to concern ourselves with the question of how it can be imparted to him. But there is not. The idea of a righteousness of one's own is the quintessence of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62199]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14132]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19343]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not my area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not my area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum  Ferrea vox.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of fools with long memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of fools with long memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47212</guid></item></channel></rss>