<?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[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light and perfect knowledge, or life of Christ, by much questioning, or by hearsay, or by reading and study, nor yet by high skill and great learning. Yea, so long as a man taketh account of anything which is this or that, whether it be himself, or any other creature; or doeth anything, or frameth a purpose, for the sake of his own likings or desires or opinions or ends, he cometh not unto the life of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30921]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, we'll run into kids who are about as fast as Drew. But those are usually smaller players. He's run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, we'll run into kids who are about as fast as Drew. But those are usually smaller players. He's run a 4.45 (in the 40-yard dash). And when he gets out into the open, he has a faster gear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43306]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34349]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51721]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him,  And make all clean and plant himself afresh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5216]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, 'Psst. That's the Secret Service.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52045]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're well away from that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're well away from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160</guid></item></channel></rss>