<?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[Persuasion is better than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the roles had to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I could fly, I am so happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I could fly, I am so happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer begins where human capacity ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer begins where human capacity ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love would follow me still,   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the 10th round we could have half the season's work done. If we can finish the week well we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37404]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the 10th round we could have half the season's work done. If we can finish the week well we can be in a great situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the good thing about our team. A couple of guys have an off-night --which is very rare for Spencer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the good thing about our team. A couple of guys have an off-night --which is very rare for Spencer and Dustin --and then we have other guys step in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34472]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a good execution play on their part and maybe a little over aggressive on our part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never did go down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new standards will provide these growing firms with continued access to SBA's small business development assistance, helping them succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new standards will provide these growing firms with continued access to SBA's small business development assistance, helping them succeed and serve their customers into the 21st century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are made to be loved, not understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are made to be loved, not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46300]]></link><description><![CDATA[One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the best we've seen Hunter Jones throw the ball this year. That's the way he threw the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41139]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the best we've seen Hunter Jones throw the ball this year. That's the way he threw the ball last year. We were just hoping he'd get it back on track, and I think he did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41139</guid></item></channel></rss>