<?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[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kid came out of no where to make that play on the passed ball. I thought Taylor could score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36303]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kid came out of no where to make that play on the passed ball. I thought Taylor could score on that. On the relay throw, they needed a perfect one to throw him out and they made the play. You have to force the other team to make that play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,  Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650]]></link><description><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497]]></link><description><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass evangelism undoubtedly has its place; parochial missions can make their contribution; a specially gifted evangelist can proclaim his message; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mass evangelism undoubtedly has its place; parochial missions can make their contribution; a specially gifted evangelist can proclaim his message; the specialist Christian can make his contribution in factory, in politics and in teaching; all these are genuine contributions to the evangelistic activity of the Christian Church: but in the last analysis it is the worshipping community, that part of the Body of Christ that worships, lives and proclaims the Gospel in all its activities in any given neighborhood, which is the real evangelising agent used by the Spirit of God. It is here amongst the people, that the Church must worship and live its life. If it is faithful both to God and to its Gospel, it will be used to hold forth the Word of light to the conversion of those that see and hear. But if its light is hid, then wherewith shall the neighborhood be lighted?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56015]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13771]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake -- a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. And therefore the action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a couple of shifts later. They turn things around so quickly, it's frustrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43378</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[Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad:  Silence accompanied; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad:  Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,   They to they grassy couch, these to their nests,    Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't expect a mean-spirited, mudslinging race. It's not my style. It's not Rudy's, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't expect a mean-spirited, mudslinging race. It's not my style. It's not Rudy's, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects the governor's desire to get all the input that he can possibly get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31132]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get it right, just get it written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get it right, just get it written]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54769</guid></item></channel></rss>