<?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 total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38290]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into a case like this as a defendant six feet under, and you have to continually claw your way out of that hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in Babylon   And you were a Christian slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. -Alan Paton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55109]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14768]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42875]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all, and let us yield to it. —Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all, and let us yield to it. —Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function  Is smothered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60020]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function  Is smothered in surmise and nothing is   But what is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54106]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were treated like animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were treated like animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56008</guid></item></channel></rss>