<?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[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13415]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some joy of silence or of sound,   Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17666]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a ball is hit in the air, you almost expect it to be caught. [And on tough balls] we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a ball is hit in the air, you almost expect it to be caught. [And on tough balls] we're still expecting them to be caught [as well].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[main line of investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315]]></link><description><![CDATA[main line of investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is my church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is my church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not missing in the traditional sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34696]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not missing in the traditional sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28361]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thing about (Cline's) teams is it starts with the offensive line, but when I think about their explosiveness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thing about (Cline's) teams is it starts with the offensive line, but when I think about their explosiveness, what I have seen is they have a lot of versatility,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely an advantage playing all our Sectional games here. It takes time, but eventually you realize it's the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33048]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely an advantage playing all our Sectional games here. It takes time, but eventually you realize it's the same distance to the rim and you start to shoot the ball [well].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33252]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45490]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When kings are building, draymen have something to do. [Ger., Wenn die Konige bau'n, haben die Karrner zu thun.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54497]]></link><description><![CDATA[When kings are building, draymen have something to do. [Ger., Wenn die Konige bau'n, haben die Karrner zu thun.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66080]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42250]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at large will feel like it's moving through molasses, even though it will be moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61744]]></link><description><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12815]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only part to meet again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only part to meet again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14246]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill   And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/927]]></link><description><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41268]]></link><description><![CDATA[will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether it meets the conditions President Clinton has outlined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61300]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need, not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into the background and seems to disappear more and more. Modern thought is impersonal. There are, even today, a great many people who understand that man needs salvation, but there are very few who are convinced that he needs forgiveness and redemption... Sin is understood as imperfection, sensuality, worldliness -- but not as guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527</guid></item></channel></rss>