<?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[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One slumber finds another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One slumber finds another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The Christian should be a conscience in his group. His presence must never be used to provide a Christian justification for evil. To stand as a co-belligerent and not an ally will be to rally the middle ground for a genuine Third Way without mediocre compromise. The Third Way will not be easy. It will be lonely. Sometimes the Christian must have the courage to stand with the establishment, speaking boldly to the radicals and pointing out the destructive and counter-productive nature of their violence. At other times, he will stand as a co-belligerent with the radicals in their outrage and just demands for redress. The Christian is a co-belligerent with either or both when either or both are right, but... fearless in his opposition to either or both when they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110]]></link><description><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why care for grammar as long as we are good? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why care for grammar as long as we are good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved most curiously;   It is a little picture painted well.    What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the tear that fell     From a great poet's hidden ecstasy;      A two-edged sword, a star, a song--ah me!       Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little losses amaze, great tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little losses amaze, great tame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17761]]></link><description><![CDATA[One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been pretty horrible. My girlfriend tried calling at about 12 o'clock the other night. She couldn't get one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been pretty horrible. My girlfriend tried calling at about 12 o'clock the other night. She couldn't get one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to see children before anyone commits a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to see children before anyone commits a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have three plays and out or allow penalties to get us backed up. New Philadelphia is too good of a football team for us to do that. We need to be able to hold it and move it and we really have to put it in the end zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be to coordinate inquiries and efforts, exchange information and plan for the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be to coordinate inquiries and efforts, exchange information and plan for the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3520]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6765]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented Christians especially tend to think that the barriers to faith should be removed by repackaging the content of the message in a way more congenial to the modern outlook. But it is quite possible that we are dealing not so much with a failure of intellect as with an alienation from the experiential roots of Christianity itself so amply attested in the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Iran will not become an obstacle to peace and security in Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Iran will not become an obstacle to peace and security in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47114</guid></item></channel></rss>