<?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[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39647]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you won't be any good, ... But when you really research it, you see those guys have played and they have the ability. The great thing about athletics is that what's written doesn't make any difference. It's what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   [He said:] that our sanctification did not depend upon our changing our works, but upon our doing that for God' s sake which commonly we do for our own; that it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has "come to himself" as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol of our common failure to protect the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13442]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7295]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627]]></link><description><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!   Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering    And innocent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15261]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20957]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? ;A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61502]]></link><description><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59238]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55127]]></link><description><![CDATA[They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11221</guid></item></channel></rss>