<?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[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66315]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jawani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As the veil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jawani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As the veil of the temple was, at the death of the Saviour, rent asunder, in the same way our communion with the Crucified puts aside all the curtains separating us artificially from the rest of the world, and removes all sense of privilege and exclusiveness. It is this explanation of justification by faith only which leads us to the true depth of what the Gospel has contributed to this world. To live by grace and to die by grace, to live in forgiveness every day, every hour and every moment, means to identify oneself with those who do not share our faith, and to realize all the debts we owe them. Let us not be afraid that this will reduce the Gospel to relativism. Its depth is in proportion to its breadth. The deeper it is, the broader and fuller it becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--  Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--  Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell,   As eager to anticipate their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an unbelievable recovery (to get on the green) from where he was sometimes you get the breaks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an unbelievable recovery (to get on the green) from where he was sometimes you get the breaks and sometimes you don't. That's golf. I couldn't be prouder of Rob and the rest of the entire team. Six under on this course is absolutely phenomenal. Nobody else was under par and we've got some tremendous golfers in this conference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27519]]></link><description><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20174]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was terrible out there. I felt bad for the girls. They'd kick the ball and it would only go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was terrible out there. I felt bad for the girls. They'd kick the ball and it would only go about six inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are strong and have come together through a lot of adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42630]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are strong and have come together through a lot of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man had packed his suitcase and was ready to travel abroad to his holiday residence. Family members long thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man had packed his suitcase and was ready to travel abroad to his holiday residence. Family members long thought he was abroad. That was the reason the man could lie here so long before being found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hats off! Along the street there comes  A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,   A flash of color beneath the sky:    Hats off!     The flag is passing by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit  Beneath my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3547]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit  Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest   And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,    And all the daughters of the year shall dance!     Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  Away from the world that slaves for money--   Come, journey the way with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40583]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the lea   That's the way for Billy and me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43237</guid></item></channel></rss>