<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sorts and conditions of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26259]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sorts and conditions of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee with classic shores to vie   In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye;    Yet hast thou scenes of beauty richly fraught     With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every living thing there is the desire for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every living thing there is the desire for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said Nick. "Let's climb higher." "No," I said. "I think we should be heading back now." "We have time," Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two years. We weren't in existence two years ago. We didn't have all those officers. Those phone calls are slowing down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger;  Stronger than the dark, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger;  Stronger than the dark, the light;   Stronger than the wrong, the right;    Faith and Hope triumphant say     Christ will rise on Easter Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38827]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a major with all these great players and be under par... and then make a hole-in-one to boot. That might put me in the history books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22192]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. There's not much rationality in a greed environment and there's not much rationality in a fear environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum  Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2896]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,  Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;   Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39801</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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9277]]></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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men are to render even at the cost of death, by Himself first dying in rendering it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12700]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain about being 2-0. We had never beaten Milton in Milton before so it was a good win for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37359</guid></item></channel></rss>