<?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[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62117]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his quart and said,   "My work is done, I'll go to bed."    "My work is done!" retorted Joan,     "My work is done! Your constant tone,      But hapless woman ne'er can say       'My work is done' till judgment day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48786]]></link><description><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32097]]></link><description><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25843]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talk to Travis every week about guiding the team and not turning the ball over. He's making the plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talk to Travis every week about guiding the team and not turning the ball over. He's making the plays is doing what exactly needs to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29838]]></link><description><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides when he drained the southern marshes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11573]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  How shall I charm the interval that lowers   Between this time and that sweet time of grace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so much in its claim to record the Word of God, as in its insistence that the Word of God is to be heard in a particular historical happening, in a particular locality -- and only there. To put it in a provocative manner: the Bible is theology. It is historical theology. It can reveal its meaning only to those who regard it as the Word of God, and are able to preserve a strict confidence in the universal significance of particular historical occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32340]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. Then, we need basic science to figure out how it is helping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One that is neither flesh not fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16050]]></link><description><![CDATA[One that is neither flesh not fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a little thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life -- that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if he were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called upon to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last,  His heaven commences ere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19094]]></link><description><![CDATA[While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last,  His heaven commences ere the world be past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2981]]></link><description><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We secure to two trees in case one of them breaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We secure to two trees in case one of them breaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45663</guid></item></channel></rss>