<?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[Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a superficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the Bible was an imposture, they were determined to expose [it]. Mr. West chose the Resurrection of Christ, and Lord Lyttleton the conversion of St Paul, for the subject of hostile criticism. Both sat down to their respective tasks full of prejudice and a contempt for Christianity. The results of their separate endeavours was that they were both converted by their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity! They came together, not as they had expected, to exult over an imposture exposed to ridicule, but to lament their folly and congratulate each other on their joint conviction, that the Bible was the word of God. Their able enquiries have furnished two most valuable treatises in favour of revelation -- one, entitled "Observations on the Conversion of St Paul", and the other, "Observations on the Resurrection of Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60635]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60120]]></link><description><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising:  There are forty feeding like one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising:  There are forty feeding like one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for his country, and we should raise the next generation by his example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for a state response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We were a pretty handful until we got in point guard trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good as a play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/416]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good as a play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11196]]></link><description><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31601]]></link><description><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly more-than-expected margin weakness and lower cash flow is unlikely to be taken well. Our sell rating is maintained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   The popular craving [for an English Bible] could not be stifled, and the sixteenth century saw the pioneering works of Tyndale and Coverdale; then, two years after Coverdale, the real "authorized version" appeared in 1537, when a mysterious translator called "Thomas Matthew" had his works not only dedicated to but licensed by Henry VIII. In the long run, what put the Bible into the hands of the common people was the influence exerted on public opinion and authority by the reformation of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, I think we saw a team that had to change things around a bit. Not this week. And has started before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game. Everyone is looking at the type ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game. Everyone is looking at the type of team they have and looking at the type of team they think we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39486]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435</guid></item></channel></rss>