<?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[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter's, be thereby manifested to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038</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[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17881]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34077]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he'll hang himself. But how much rope will it take?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46786]]></link><description><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- if this; dream a great dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here only playing golf and having a good time. But we're here for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here only playing golf and having a good time. But we're here for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36833]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing a fine job. This shift out of distribution is an ideal fit for J.P. Morgan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61248]]></link><description><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32213]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to catch. I think Ted can win in November.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wasn't even thinking about getting into the end zone. I was just trying to get upfield and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wasn't even thinking about getting into the end zone. I was just trying to get upfield and not fumble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62341</guid></item></channel></rss>