<?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[The greater the truth the greater the libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the truth the greater the libel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we took a bad shot or turned the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The houses he makes last till doomsday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The houses he makes last till doomsday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What power has love but forgiveness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8359]]></link><description><![CDATA[What power has love but forgiveness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail   Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9100]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55204]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2664]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knight without fear and without reproach. [Fr., Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knight without fear and without reproach. [Fr., Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation in Abidjan is very similar to the one we had yesterday. There's a crowd of Young Patriots outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation in Abidjan is very similar to the one we had yesterday. There's a crowd of Young Patriots outside the U.N. building as we speak, and it's a growing crowd. We had an attack on a U.N. convoy this morning shortly before 7 a.m.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Stallings was one of the top pitchers in the conference. We lost him towards the end of last year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff Stallings was one of the top pitchers in the conference. We lost him towards the end of last year and that really hurt us. Joey Devine was one of the top pitchers ever in this conference, which he proved by what he did after he left here, making the big leagues in two months. Phil Davidson who was so versatile and played so many roles for us. He started, he came in in the sixth inning, came in the third, spot-started. He even closed some games. Phil was amazing for us. When a guy can do that many things for you, you're not just missing one pitcher; it's like you're missing three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35112]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior I want is one of whom I can say with Thomas of old, "My Lord and my God". It would not suffice for my need that He should be only an heroic brother, man divinely inspired. I owe Him my soul, He fills my whole spiritual horizon, I seek to lose myself in Him that I may find myself eternally in life and love divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a kind of legalized pillage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a kind of legalized pillage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head,   Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774</guid></item></channel></rss>