<?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[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605   I am verily persuaded that the Lord has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605   I am verily persuaded that the Lord has more Truth yet to break forth out of His holy Word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the Condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a Period in Religion and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their Reformation. The Lutheran can't be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things... I beseech you, remember, 'tis an Article of your Church Covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever Truth shall be made known to you from the written Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to see   That banner in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we go on the floor expecting to win. I'm happy with that change of mentality. These girls are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we go on the floor expecting to win. I'm happy with that change of mentality. These girls are fighters and they'll fight until it's all done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9844]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4408]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61946]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/928]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength, before going out to face the world again. "The thoughtful soul to solitude retires," said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? "Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still," is a wise and healing counsel; but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. What was intended to be a blessing has become a positive curse. No spot is now safe from the world's intrusion. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. What the world will do about it is their problem. Apparently the masses want it the way it is, and the majority of Christians are so completely conformed to this present age that they, too, want things the way they are. They may be annoyed a bit by the clamor and by the goldfish-bowl existence they live, but apparently they are not annoyed enough to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33967]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health consists with Temperance alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health consists with Temperance alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6591]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind and all man's life upon the earth, are manifestations of God; and the man turns to barrenness and folly who limits himself to his own narrow thought and futile endeavours. All human experience is revelation if the great purpose of life is the discipline of souls, and the one unchanging guidance for all men is duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their kids -- (or) home schooling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of "religion".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49514]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14909]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30470]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a good hitter in a 3-2 count, do you throw a fastball he knows is coming or start fresh with the next hitter? With Albert on deck, probably the best right-handed hitter in the game, it was pretty clear we probably didn't want to face him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33324]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12387]]></link><description><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172</guid></item></channel></rss>