<?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[Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is new each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is new each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow  Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow  Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,   And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys    Of vanished springs, like flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of seniors that have been playing together for four years. We expect the best out of each other and we play well together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58789]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY The King of glory sends his Son, To make his entrance on this earth; Behold the midnight bright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6606]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY The King of glory sends his Son, To make his entrance on this earth; Behold the midnight bright as noon, And heav'nly hosts declare his birth! About the young Redeemer's head, What wonders, and what glories meet! An unknown star arose, and led The eastern sages to his feet. Simeon and Anna both conspire The infant Saviour to proclaim; Inward they felt the sacred fire, And bless'd the babe, and own'd his name. Let pagan hordes blaspheme aloud, And treat the holy child with scorn; Our souls adore th' eternal God Who condescended to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31087]]></link><description><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be here today, because a couple years ago it wasn't a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One with the law is a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One with the law is a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40488]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39567]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the first state to say, 'Hey, at least get our permission first'. It's good that lawmakers in Wisconsin are paying attention to the fact that this technology even exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's command,  Assist our song;  For else the theme  Too high doth seem  For mortal tongue.  Ye blessed souls at rest, Who ran this earthly race, And now, from sin released, Behold the Saviour's face,  God's praises sound,  As in his sight,  With sweet delight,  Ye do abound.  Ye saints, who toil below, Adore your heavenly King. And onward as ye go Some joyful anthem sing;  Take what he gives  And praise him still,  Through good or ill,  Who ever lives!  My soul, bear thou thy part, Triumph in God above: And with a well-tuned heart Sing thou the songs of love!  Let all thy days  Till life shall end,  Whate'er he send,  Be filled with praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For surely in the blind deep-buried roots Of all men's souls to-day  A secret quiver shoots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57798]]></link><description><![CDATA[For surely in the blind deep-buried roots Of all men's souls to-day  A secret quiver shoots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you may think yourself ever so dull and incapable of sublime attainments, yet by prayer the possession and enjoyment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you may think yourself ever so dull and incapable of sublime attainments, yet by prayer the possession and enjoyment of God is easily obtained; for He is more desirous to give Himself to us than we can be to receive Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last couple years, a lot of resources in the IRS are going to enforcement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last couple years, a lot of resources in the IRS are going to enforcement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429</guid></item></channel></rss>