<?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[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided that only 163 of them should be followed up on. It really does mean there is a huge graft problem in North Sumatra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6866]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men who can get on very well without him", then the Church has no need to say anything whatever to secularized man for that is precisely what secularized man already believes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you can't hardly understand him. But he definitely knows what's going on. That's for sure. He sees everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who multiplies riches multiplies cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61462]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the thing you forget with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the thing you forget with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a remarkable thing for all of us. Right now, we feel like we can accomplish a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a remarkable thing for all of us. Right now, we feel like we can accomplish a lot of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61658]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep into the sixth inning. Isn't that something? Deep into the sixth inning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary;  The vine still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary;  The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,   But at every gust the dead leaves fall,    And the day is dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9873]]></link><description><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the Florida catastrophe fund. Commissioners are calling for special sessions in legislature and are hoping that the process will be more seamless than it was in Florida.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal. 5:5) everywhere and at all times. By the knowledge of Jesus Christ all human waiting is guaranteed, authorized and established; for He makes it known that it is not men who wait, but God -- in His faithfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36988]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085]]></link><description><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam   That through his lattice peeped derisively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's timing in moving me down here was perfect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39159]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20614]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain   Make Good    Together there we can begin again     In babyhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden-close;   Her tears, to the wind-flower,--his blood, to the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55775]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item></channel></rss>