<?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[We're trying to open it up more for other kids to be threats. ... We need to get consistency from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to open it up more for other kids to be threats. ... We need to get consistency from other kids to pick their game up to another level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54291</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[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's going to get hurt. It's like sliding on cement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the silent language of grief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the silent language of grief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a "down-payment", on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So here we are again, a few billion miles farther along our mysterious path among the immensities. What a comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7309]]></link><description><![CDATA[So here we are again, a few billion miles farther along our mysterious path among the immensities. What a comfort it is to know the Man in charge of it all. Without Him, it would be easy to think that the whole of time and space, and life itself, are without reason, purpose, or meaning -- as H. G. Wells said, that it is "a bad joke beyond our unterstanding, a flare of vulgarity, an empty laugh braying across the mysteries." With Jesus forever between God and us, we can understand a few things, and trust Him for the rest. After all, He is one of us: a baby once, as we all were; then, and forever after, a Man, as we all shall always be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47552]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is all you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is all you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about  The other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about  The other four in wondrous motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists himself as a soldier to fight under Christ's banner all his life after. And Saint Paul, speaking of those that die with Christ, that they may live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, does not mean this of monks only, but of Christians universally.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus July 13, 1999  Do right, and God's recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God's reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness of giving. Love, and God will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven: love is God within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3936]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   Their great Original proclaim.    Forever singing, as they shine,     The hand that made us is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great necessities call out great virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great necessities call out great virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole game is about throwing and catching. The teams that do that the best comes out on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole game is about throwing and catching. The teams that do that the best comes out on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30388</guid></item></channel></rss>