<?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[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52348]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a real political danger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a real political danger and paves the way for confrontations rather than a settlement. The summit would fail, and this would lead to explosions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All he would do is cover people and not strike anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't playing too well. I think he gained some confidence in that game against Watkins. He was coming back from an injury and finally got comfortable and played his game and didn't worry about his ankle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money just draws flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money just draws flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61979]]></link><description><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four seniors really organized things. I've seen it occasionally, but usually not everybody. For all seven of them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four seniors really organized things. I've seen it occasionally, but usually not everybody. For all seven of them to show up in great shape, that's a really big plus for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's commitment to bring justice to all those who plot murder and orchestrate terror, no matter how long they run or how far they flee,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O my prophetic soul! My uncle? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48462]]></link><description><![CDATA[O my prophetic soul! My uncle?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30203]]></link><description><![CDATA[An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and they have a stake in our economy, ... Middle income Americans need a capital gains tax cut and I intend to give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38125]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away. - Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was not, as has been supposed, because there is no more need for [the charismatic gifts], "because all the world had become Christian". ... The real cause was: the love of many, of almost all Christians so called, was waxed cold; ... The real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit were no longer to be found in the Christian Church [was that] the Christians were turned heathen again, and had only a dead form left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33060]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of the craziness of the time, ... He was our historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of distinction out of sight, as we keep knives and razors out of the way of children; and if my hearers had not some other means of information, I think they would not know from me that there are such creatures as Arminians and Calvinists in the world. But we [would] talk a good deal about Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. [Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61305]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild in eager flow.    The earth is dried and parched with heat,     And it hath long'd to be      Released from out the selfish cloud,       To cool the thirsty tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item></channel></rss>