<?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[It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, served no private end,   Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,    Ennobled by himself, by all approved,     And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2615]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be considered a breakthrough unless it first seemed a little ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring   On the angler's trysting-tree?    Tell, sweet thrushes, tell to me,     Are there buds on our willow-tree?      Buds and birds on our trysting tree?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21121]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17858]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was beautiful. She was totally dominant (in the circle). She didn't get a lot of strikeouts, but she hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was beautiful. She was totally dominant (in the circle). She didn't get a lot of strikeouts, but she hit her spots and kept them off-balance. They didn't hit the ball hard and the defense was solid behind her. I was very happy with our defense today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just amazing. There is such a vast network of golf-related business at the show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just amazing. There is such a vast network of golf-related business at the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in this flower doth appear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32122]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean any particular part of the Church; what we do mean is that conversion must leave one linked in loving fellowship with one's fellow believers. Conversion is not something simply between a man and Jesus Christ, with no other person involved. True, it may start in that way; but it cannot end in that way. Conversion is not individualistic. It is, in fact, just the opposite. It joins man to his fellow men, and certainly does not separate him from them. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(We) just had to come together as a team and focus to pick up the intensity, on defense especially. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41037]]></link><description><![CDATA[(We) just had to come together as a team and focus to pick up the intensity, on defense especially. You know, we created some turnovers. We changed the tempo of the game in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9484]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   And now be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly bread to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, nor that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master... But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test... For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits form character and character is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits form character and character is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18523</guid></item></channel></rss>