<?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[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[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light,   And wish that thou wert by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631   God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, First and Last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631   God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, First and Last, that God is also Love it self; and therefore this Love is Alpha and Omega, First and Last too. Consider Christ's proceeding with Peter in the ship, in the storm: First he suffered him to be in some danger in the storm, but then he visits him with that strong assurance, "Be not afraid, It is I": any testimony of his presence rectifies all. This puts Peter into that spiritual confidence and courage, "Lord bid me come to thee"; he hath a desire to be with Christ, but yet stays his bidding: he puts not himself into an unnecessary danger, without commandment: Christ bids him, and Peter comes: but yet, though Christ were in his sight, and even in the actual exercise of his love to him, so soon as he saw a gust, a storm, "He was afraid"; and Christ lets him fear, and lets him sink, and lets him cry, but he directs his fear and his cry to the right end: "Lord, save me"; and thereupon he stretched forth his hand and saved him...   God puts his children into good ways, and he directs and protects them in those ways; for this is the constancy and perseverence of the love of Jesus Christ to us, as he is called in this text (Matt. 21:44), a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61141]]></link><description><![CDATA[When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12989]]></link><description><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15148]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30144]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11575]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This character is just Annandale football, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33639]]></link><description><![CDATA[This character is just Annandale football,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did make a few adjustments at halftime, but part of that is probably North had a big lead and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did make a few adjustments at halftime, but part of that is probably North had a big lead and didn't play with the same intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law of Moses to the order of creation. While, therefore, the Law of Moses is from one aspect the first stage of revelation, leading up to the Law of Christ, in another aspect it is a temporary expedient on the way from the Law of Nature to the Law of Christ, serving certain limited purposes, which fulfilled, it may be set aside, leaving mankind in Christ confronted by the original law of his creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item></channel></rss>