<?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[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24688]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46663]]></link><description><![CDATA[When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  It is a singularly unpleasant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  It is a singularly unpleasant thought that a book about Holy Communion is more likely to produce disagreement and controversy than one written on almost any other Christian subject. It seems a truly terrible thing that this Sacred Appointment, which was surely meant to unite, in actual practice divides Christians more sharply than any other part of their worship. Christians of various denominations may, and frequently do, work together on social projects, they may study the Scripture together, and they may ... pray together. But the moment attendance at the Lord's Table is suggested, up go the denominational barriers... I would make a strong plea that we do not exclude from the Lord's Table in our Church those who are undoubtedly sincere Christians. I cannot believe that to communicate together with our Lord should be regarded as the consummation, the final pinnacle, of the whole vast work of Reunion. Suppose it is the means and not the end. We might feel far more sharply the sin of our divisions and of our exclusiveness if we came humbly together to receive the Body and Blood of our Lord, and in that reception we might find such a quickening of our common devotion to Him that the divisions between us might be found not nearly so insuperable as we supposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32260]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35544]]></link><description><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great football team right here. This was our most complete game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34083]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great football team right here. This was our most complete game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a big game for us and we'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a big game for us and we'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38924]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul? He can have but little knowledge of his own heart who will deny this. On the other hand, who that is holding on in the ways of righteousness, does not daily ascribe his steadfastness to the influence of that grace which he receives from God; and look daily to God for more grace, in order that he may be "kept by his power through faith unto salvation (Zech. iv. 9)?" No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints, unless he be of this disposition. Why then must these things be put in opposition to each other, so that every advocate for one of these points must of necessity controvert and explode the other? Only let any pious person... examine the language of his prayers after he has been devoutly pouring out his soul before God, and he will find his own words almost in perfect consonance with the foregoing statement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. If, said he, you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards. The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape. Look before you leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46491]]></link><description><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy being green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy being green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horses make a landscape look beautiful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horses make a landscape look beautiful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967]]></link><description><![CDATA[What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½ pulled up about half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30713]]></link><description><![CDATA[[ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½ pulled up about half way in the driveway and shouted 'Quick! Get a camera.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice is still for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61123]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice is still for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want -- a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6855</guid></item></channel></rss>