<?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[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37698]]></link><description><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55591]]></link><description><![CDATA[In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The administration believes it's in the best interest at this time to ban both research as well as reproductive cloning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The administration believes it's in the best interest at this time to ban both research as well as reproductive cloning because the easy step that moves us across that line we all agree is reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you put yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you come out and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28383]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you put yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you come out and hold them to three points then you have done your job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dog was going crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dog was going crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57830]]></link><description><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be pedestaled in triumph?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blond in a red dress can do without introductions --but not without a bodyguard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17517]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blond in a red dress can do without introductions --but not without a bodyguard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be right back here, hopefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66590]]></link><description><![CDATA[For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22821]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623]]></link><description><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32153]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for them. We're hoping we can be ready for when league starts again next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46153]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16937</guid></item></channel></rss>