<?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[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48750]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  Can make the fool of; that they made before:   In fact I must not lead the life I did do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just tried to talk to her and get her to settle down after that first big jump, because she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just tried to talk to her and get her to settle down after that first big jump, because she was jumping all over the place in celebration afterwards. It's like hitting a home run in baseball. The next time at bat, you swing so hard you can't even see the ball. I wanted her to stay focused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports is the toy department of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports is the toy department of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1724]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To view each love one blotted from life's page,   And be alone on earth as I am now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude now; our individuality begins with it; our personality grows strong because of it; and we know, if we know anything, that while the more we approach the good the more we please God, at the same time the more we approach the good the more nobly distinctive, the more beautifully individual do our characters become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor who was there (Iraq) who can help me out or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have concluded it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have concluded it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing secure unlesse suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing secure unlesse suspected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32161]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of that land. It's not our intention to make that part of the transaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people who can't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33614]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people who can't get through the handbook, ... They say they can't find out what they need to know. It's a little dense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt as if Hafez Al Assad was talking! He has send a clear message to his people, Arabs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28331]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt as if Hafez Al Assad was talking! He has send a clear message to his people, Arabs and the whole world that Syria is strong and fear can never find its way into the hearts of Syrians,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19396]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Race highlights the fact that in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Race highlights the fact that in our congregational life we usually do not reflect the variety of cultures. There are Asian, West Indian, and Anglo-Saxon congregations worshiping and meeting close to each other. These groups meet at work and in school, but not always in church. If the church is middle-class and intellectual in the language of the services, in the music employed, in the life-style expected of Christians, in its leadership, and in the methods of presenting the gospel, then the whole atmosphere is such as to repel those who are not middle-class and intellectual. They feel out of place and unwanted, even if they are given a friendly greeting at the door. The life of the New Testament Church was evidence of the supernatural; God was in their midst. The power of Christ was a reality. The fellowship could not be explained in simple natural terms. A church divided on social and racial lines is not evidence for the supernatural, but for the simply human and social.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of each and every one of our kids. All of them refused to lose. Even when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of each and every one of our kids. All of them refused to lose. Even when they were outclassed they kept coming back and never gave up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25289]]></link><description><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the board is not voting 5-0 doesn't mean it's dysfunctional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51975]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that they're only for kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5810</guid></item></channel></rss>