<?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[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road you can get the same thing for a lower price. They think just because people don't have cars that they can jack up the prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saw life steadily and saw it whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saw life steadily and saw it whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum  Quaerere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48351]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg.  We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart,   But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   If Religion has raised us into a new world, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   If Religion has raised us into a new world, if it has filled us with new ends of life, if it has taken possession of our hearts, and altered the whole turn of our minds, if it has changed all our ideas of things, given us a new set of hopes and fears, and taught us to live by the realities of an invisible world -- then we may humbly hope that we are true followers of the Holy Jesus, and such as may rejoice in the Day of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62688]]></link><description><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17696]]></link><description><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. Itbasically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'It's simple, but it works.''source: Boston Globe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the semifinals we will need to play diligently in front of Mercer, while playing unbelievably aggressive in front of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the semifinals we will need to play diligently in front of Mercer, while playing unbelievably aggressive in front of their net minder. This weekend, we will need to score more than two goals on 36 shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying U.S. Treasuries and how far the Fed goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law of Moses to the order of creation. While, therefore, the Law of Moses is from one aspect the first stage of revelation, leading up to the Law of Christ, in another aspect it is a temporary expedient on the way from the Law of Nature to the Law of Christ, serving certain limited purposes, which fulfilled, it may be set aside, leaving mankind in Christ confronted by the original law of his creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   In pastoral array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth  Whiles we enjoy it; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth  Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,   Why, then we rack the value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16157]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people who prefer the way our first records sounded, but if we had more money and time back then, we would have made them sound better. I always want our albums to sound more polished, as they say. Polished is the point for what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42521]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš Everybody gets excited about this.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37011]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš Everybody gets excited about this.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item></channel></rss>