<?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[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to help get the information out to people while there's still an opportunity to make changes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to help get the information out to people while there's still an opportunity to make changes in the plan,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66476]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear is to heed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50408]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear is to heed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has religion to do with facts? Nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14891]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has religion to do with facts? Nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750]]></link><description><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Only when a man tries to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Only when a man tries to live the divine life can the divine Christ manifest Himself to him. Therefore, the true way for you to find Christ is not to go groping in a thousand books. It is not for you to try evidences about a thousand things that people have believed of Him, but it is for you to undertake so great a life, so devoted a life, so pure a life, so serviceable a life, that you cannot do it except by Christ, and then see whether Christ helps you. See then whether there comes to you the certainty that you are a child of God, and the manifestation of the child of God becomes the most credible, the most certain thing to you in all of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will work unless you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will work unless you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1915]]></link><description><![CDATA[To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47986]]></link><description><![CDATA[In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a truck and forced to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn about is fair play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn about is fair play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51043</guid></item></channel></rss>