<?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[However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6180]]></link><description><![CDATA[However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the faculty of decision. If you are determined in your purpose, if you have the will to do the Will, then with half a creed and less than half a pious ecstasy, you are at least in the line of the purpose of Jesus Christ; and as you will to do His will, may come some day to know the teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2818]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. It's an unbelievable accomplishment for Jamie to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25123]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,   To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian of a faith like this,   Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,    And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a "down-payment", on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time;  A message to him every wave can deliver   To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, fever ridden, on a bed He lies; Homeless He wanders now beneath the stars; Now counts the number of His prison bars; Now bends beside us, crowned with hoary hairs. No need have we to climb the heavenly stairs And press our kisses on His feet and hands; In every man that suffers, He, the Man of Sorrows, stands.  ... Anonymous    March 5, 1998  When we have, through Christ, obtained mercy for our persons, we need not fear but that we shall have suitable and seasonable help for our duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just knowing you have Khabibulan, that confidence in the great goaltending, you seem to just play better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just knowing you have Khabibulan, that confidence in the great goaltending, you seem to just play better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours   But large enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664   When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM". "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at bo-peep    Did soon draw in agen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple Axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100 for today's skate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall never want rope enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall never want rope enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50387]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every now and then say, 'What the f***.' 'What the f*** gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every now and then say, 'What the f***.' 'What the f*** gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52326]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,   Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.    There we grow early gray, but never wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56764</guid></item></channel></rss>