<?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[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half she was struggling but when she turns a corner or hits a shot or steps up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half she was struggling but when she turns a corner or hits a shot or steps up and hits a play then it kind of opens things up. Her and Brittney are both the motor that makes us go. So they've got to do well and they both played real composed in the second half and real strong for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't always get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, than to charge them not to trade too much with their natural gifts, and abilities, and learning. These are talents in their kind; but it is the Spirit that must manage all that learning they have, or it will prejudice them, and you also. I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But you business is to trade with your spiritual abilities... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart [are] not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62723]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a man; nothing human is alien to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do whatever needs to be done to help us win. The adrenaline was pumping inside me, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do whatever needs to be done to help us win. The adrenaline was pumping inside me, and all I wanted to do is get guys out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12883]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. We should have played to conserve our 1-0 lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40209]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will bring havoc, even within our lifetime,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret if only he may express the beauty he has seen, the martyr who will obey God in the scorn of consequence, are all religious men or, at least, are men who illustrate that principle which lies behind religion. Truth, Beauty, Goodness -- these are sacred, the object of man's true love and reverence. He to whom nothing is sacred, all questions are open, and the distinction between right and wrong is blurred, is an enslaved, not an emancipated, spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!  O, ma patrie   La plus cherie,    Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!     Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61026]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58794]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families from filling out the form. College today, of course, is the passport to the American dream for so many students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15367]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like they've taken on the role, but they're not bosses. It's easy to be a boss, but not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like they've taken on the role, but they're not bosses. It's easy to be a boss, but not a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34153</guid></item></channel></rss>