<?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[Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do feel this is a reactionary act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do feel this is a reactionary act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23079]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61285]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   The wren with little quill--    . . . .     The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,      The plain-song cuckoo grey,       Whose note full many a man doth mark,        And dares not answer nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but we are the weirdest herd I have ever seen.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3575]]></link><description><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61552]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You lose, and it's all your fault. I'm glad I'm on the good end of things. I could've been the sacrificial lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11224]]></link><description><![CDATA[How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28030</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 first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according to Prof. [William] Ramsay's calculation, he had laboured for only five months. Thus his stay had not been long enough for him to do more than teach the fundamental truths which seemed to him of the first importance: all the circumstances of his visit were still fresh in his memory and he was recalling to the minds of his readers what he had taught them by word of mouth. Now in that Epistle we get an extraordinarily clear and coherent account of simple mission-preaching not only implied but definitely expressed. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item></channel></rss>