<?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[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that the Christian faith can do that for the world which the world needs. You say, "What can I do?" You can furnish one Christian life. You can furnish a life so faithful to every duty, so ready for every service, so determined not to commit every sin, that the great Christian Church shall be the stronger for your living in it, and the problem of the world be answered, and a certain great peace come into this poor, perplexed phase of our humanity as it sees that new revelation of what Christianity is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!  Ye woodbines, hanging bonnilie   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!  Ye woodbines, hanging bonnilie   In scented bowers!    Ye roses on your thorny tree     The first o' flow'rs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you raise the bar for children, they not only reach it, they far surpass it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you raise the bar for children, they not only reach it, they far surpass it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you can do more damage than good if you don't do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39250]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early and by the end it was a struggle. It was a very draining meet in terms of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711   [My father's] common salutation of his family or friends, on the Lord's day in the morning, was that of the primitive Christians: "The Lord is risen, He is risen indeed"; making it his chief business on that day to celebrate the memory of Christ's resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37827]]></link><description><![CDATA[While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most severely affected area in northern Illinois remains stubbornly dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62468]]></link><description><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up at your cousin's upcoming wedding reception -- you're good with technology, have you ever considered becoming a Xerox machine repairperson?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61065]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are the touchstones of our character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   No one can deny that the New Testament has variety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handle your tools without mittens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handle your tools without mittens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9100]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear  That unicorns may be betrayed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear  That unicorns may be betrayed with trees   And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,    Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,     He says he does, being then most flattered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59305]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he is out for a long time he will be a huge loss because he has been magnificent over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39682]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he is out for a long time he will be a huge loss because he has been magnificent over the past few months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Catt sees not the mouse ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28948]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,  His love sincere, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16638]]></link><description><![CDATA[But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,  His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,   His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,    His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34966]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34966</guid></item></channel></rss>