<?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 my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's their life and if they kill somebody else they got to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's their life and if they kill somebody else they got to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be the right deal for Britain, and it needs to be the right deal for Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32295]]></link><description><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22506]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38582]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8018]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24139]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we can be pretty close to that again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we can be pretty close to that again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4714</guid></item></channel></rss>