<?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[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44961]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Court hath no Almanack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Court hath no Almanack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Current licensing practices already impose substantial costs and administrative burdens upon these [digital media] companies, and it would be untenable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Current licensing practices already impose substantial costs and administrative burdens upon these [digital media] companies, and it would be untenable and unfair to require them to shoulder additional costs with respect to these buffer copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments dwell above thee:    Yet who would live, and live without thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; Aterrace nine stories high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; Aterrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of athousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men play the game; women know the score ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men play the game; women know the score]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60625]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa to the Caucususand statetheir eternalallegianceto the Creator Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. There's been a slow build, but we're playing for a lot more people, and the kids seem to know the new songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45489]]></link><description><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60230]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm putting myself and my team in a position where we have a chance. Last year at this time, something else might have happened. I might not have put the ball in play. I'm comfortable where I am offensively, and I'm going to continue to spread the ball around the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26923]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63932]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135]]></link><description><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw whatever hits me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw whatever hits me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12626]]></link><description><![CDATA[That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple the sails, and so perfumed that   The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,    Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made     The water which they beat to follow faster,      As amorous of their strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4407</guid></item></channel></rss>