<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action, as by prayer in its season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things should come to pass, the determined expectation of which caused the Jews to reject Christ -- if he should actually appear, with miraculous splendor, as the restorer of the Jewish nation, and city, and Temple, reigning over the whole world as a great earthly sovereign, and reserving peculiar privileges for his own nation -- if, I say, all these expectations should be fulfilled, to which the Jews have so long and so obstinately clung, surely this would not be so much a conversion of the Jews to Christianity as a conversion of Christians to Judaism; it would not be bringing the Jews to the gospel by overcoming their national prejudices, but rather carrying back the gospel to meet the Jewish prejudices; it would be destroying the spiritual character of our religion, and establishing those erroneous views which have hitherto caused the Jews to reject it. We may conclude, then, that all the promises and predictions in Scripture relative to the future glories of the Jews and of Jerusalem, are to be understood of the Christian church, of which the Jewish church was a figure; and all that is said of feasting, and splendor, and wealth, and worldly greatness and enjoyment, is to be interpreted spiritually of the inward comfort and peace of mind, and "joy of the Holy Ghost", which is promised to sincere Christians in this life, and of the unspeakable happiness prepared for them after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15367]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been able to accomplish that. They need that off their plate. It is in Haywood County so let Haywood County take it and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19102]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame du ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la verite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26814]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my foe;   I told it not, my wrath did grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19792]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. (Tar Water.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11531]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? [Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the secularists secular education if they on their side will promise not to have moral instruction. Secular education seems to me intellectually clean and comprehensible. Moral instruction seems to me unclean, intolerable; I would destroy it with fire. Teaching the Old Testament by itself means teaching ancient Hebrew ethics, which are simple, barbaric rudimentary, and, to a Christian, unsatisfying. Teaching moral instruction means teaching modern London, Birmingham and Boston ethics, which are not barbaric and rudimentary, but are corrupt, hysterical and crawling with worms, and which are to a Christian, not unsatisfying but detestable. The old Jew who says that you must fight only for your tribe is inadequate; but the modern prig who says you must never fight for anything is substantially and specifically immoral. I know quite well, of course, that the unreligious ethics suggested for modern schools do not verbally assert these things; they only talk about peaceful reform, true Christianity, and the importance of Count Tolstoy. It is all a matter of tone and implication--but then, so is all teaching. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are from Mexico and when they came here they weren't legal. Now they are, but I still have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38016]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are from Mexico and when they came here they weren't legal. Now they are, but I still have family that isn't. It affects me personally; that's why I got involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4500</guid></item></channel></rss>