<?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[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22071</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[To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49992]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61544]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is love? A barbie doll.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is love? A barbie doll..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and thought Columbus didn't have a shot, and I think maybe that is what we thought too. We were a little complacent, because I can think of one and half good chances we had. I think Kevin [Hartman] came up big to keep us in it, but it wasn't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31573</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[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</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[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10422]]></link><description><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. [Ruth 1:16].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want -- a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round forever;    I think that life is not too long,     And therefore I determine,      That many people read a song,       Who will not read a sermon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,   Truth was with her of ridicule the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</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[O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35618]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God we trust; all others must pay cash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10604]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God we trust; all others must pay cash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18761]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184]]></link><description><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23970]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29556</guid></item></channel></rss>