<?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[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40958]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts and us not being able to get six outs without giving up some runs. We had been practicing kind of sluggish, and that carries over. But we bounced back Thursday and started hitting the ball. It was a good mental victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34982]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20646]]></link><description><![CDATA[American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are getting their first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are getting their first shot at signing up for organized recreation and the parents are eager to get them enrolled and out socializing with other children. I think that developing their skills and physical abilities and keeping them fit starts at an early age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he liveth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8141]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he liveth, whithersoever he goeth, even as Thy glance never quitteth any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61777]]></link><description><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   But 'tis so in the song.    My wants are many, and, if told,     Would muster many a score;      And were each wish a mint of gold,       I still should long for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36803]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for those who respond to his call with upright life, because in those who are directed to the good by his Spirit he recognizes the only genuine insignia of his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506]]></link><description><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left him not, till penitence had won   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3364]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. Many love Jesus so long as no adversities befall them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always win who side with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always win who side with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19404]]></link><description><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4054]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was wrong that she wasn't taking him right away. We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was wrong that she wasn't taking him right away. We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that hath been made, under the blessing of God, of the conscientious observation of the Lord's day, in the past and present ages, unto the promotion of holiness, righteousness, and religion universally, in the power of it; and if they are not under invincible prejudices, it will be very difficult for them to judge that it is a plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted. For my part, I must not only say, but plead whilst I live in this world, and leave this testimony to the present and future ages, if these papers see the light and do survive, that if I have ever seen any thing in the ways and worship of God wherein the power of religion or godliness hath been expressed, any thing that hath represented the holiness of the gospel and the Author of it, any thing that hath looked like a preludium unto the everlasting Sabbath and rest with God, which we aim through grace to come unto, it hath been there and with them where and amongst whom the Lord's day hath been had in highest esteem, and a strict observation of it attended unto, as an ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/146]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost the perfect storm. Things are coming together that we've never seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost the perfect storm. Things are coming together that we've never seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1008</guid></item></channel></rss>