<?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[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51273]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62313]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air,   Sole, or responsive each to other's note,    Singing their great Creator?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredibly inviting place to be. It's comfortable, clean, new, vibrant, and bright. At Crawford it was hard for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredibly inviting place to be. It's comfortable, clean, new, vibrant, and bright. At Crawford it was hard for us to develop a home. It was more of a place we went to practice and then got out of there. I really appreciate that my office is right here. It makes a big difference. We can train long course, which is really a big plus. We have a nice locker room. It has been great for the team. They feel like big-time athletes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is consistent with the small business loan growth we continued to experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61164]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns evermore,  Over all the desert sands. Unto all peoples of the earth  A little Child brought light;  And never in the darkest place  Can it be utter night. No flickering torch, no wavering fire,  But Light the Life of men; Whatever clouds may veil the sky,  Never is night again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1229]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23020]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36791]]></link><description><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41938]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I owe it to the Chinese that I explain what has happened in these talks that I have attended, ... This Week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homeless people on the streets knew when she was getting her check. It was no secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homeless people on the streets knew when she was getting her check. It was no secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish the last   Food was, that He on earth did taste:    I therefore strive to follow those,     Whom He to follow Him hath chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew so young a body with so old a head. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew so young a body with so old a head. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30322]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18322]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath no power that hath not power to use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47933]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath no power that hath not power to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright   The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item></channel></rss>