<?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[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;    So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;     Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,      Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party  To the church doth hie!   Bell, thou soundest solemnly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party  To the church doth hie!   Bell, thou soundest solemnly,    When, on Sabbath morning,     Fields deserted lie!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49660]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking all precautionary measures and the central government is giving us help. We are going to destroy all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking all precautionary measures and the central government is giving us help. We are going to destroy all the birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55303]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;  And (strange to tell) he practis'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;  And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25471]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8209]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one glad day Is the blue sapphire clasping all the lights That flash in the girdle of the year so fair When thou wast born a man -- because alway  Thou wast and art a man through all the flights  Of thought, and time, and thousandfold creation's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hung around that third quarter, but the fourth quarter, our game plan went out the window. We settled for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hung around that third quarter, but the fourth quarter, our game plan went out the window. We settled for easy shots outside and we only got one chance. Faith did a great job on the boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60444]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27910]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a new concept in this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39728]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a new concept in this state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1835</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/27726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church really generates the largest amount of traffic other than the people who cut through at optimum times. On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church really generates the largest amount of traffic other than the people who cut through at optimum times. On Sunday, there are certain times you wouldn't want to leave your house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are through changing, you are through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are through changing, you are through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get to the next level. Even if he is, realistically, he's not going to be there in the next year. It's going to take a couple years for him to develop into that. Garnett, as great as he is, is still going to take a lot of shots on the perimeter. The point guard is even more critical on a team without a dominant post presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of corresponding profitability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54087</guid></item></channel></rss>