<?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[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had my days. I had good support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had my days. I had good support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the worlda portion of its lost heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21838]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the worlda portion of its lost heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21838</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[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42616]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political volatility we are living through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band,  Has yet a harder task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51082]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band,  Has yet a harder task to prove--   By firm resolve to conquer love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443]]></link><description><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13249]]></link><description><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13249</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/17064]]></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/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36609]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the February Inflation Report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42325]]></link><description><![CDATA[IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ready to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23054]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27600]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15049]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15049</guid></item></channel></rss>