<?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[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my dad's albums,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone started shooting, and they had their caribou. They came to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone started shooting, and they had their caribou. They came to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48593]]></link><description><![CDATA[All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23487]]></link><description><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day  The emperice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10986]]></link><description><![CDATA[That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day  The emperice, and floure of floures alle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to lose like this because we kind of felt like we let one slip away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to lose like this because we kind of felt like we let one slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,   To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[at the core of what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198]]></link><description><![CDATA[at the core of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that there is none else that He cares for, is one of the lies of the enemy. What father is not pleased with the first tottering attempt of his little one to walk? What father would be satisfied with anything but the manly step of the full-grown son?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary cause of the [denominational] divisions is the institutionalism and organisationalism of the churches, which, without vivifying the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary cause of the [denominational] divisions is the institutionalism and organisationalism of the churches, which, without vivifying the life of the believers in them, smothers or drives it out of the ekklesia, and makes [the churches] merely dead institutions. Christians who really have life in Christ cannot exist within such a corpse and will at last have to come out of it. But in almost all cases, those who have come out of dead institutions want to have in their place another institution or other rituals and ceremonies, only repeating the same error. Instead of turning to Christ Himself as their center, they again seek to find fellowship and spiritual security on the very same basis that failed, not realizing that it is the institution that is killing, instead of producing, life in Christ. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be third because this is my best qualifying position so far this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be third because this is my best qualifying position so far this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a scary moment. I'd gotten used to living in Arizona; it was home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a scary moment. I'd gotten used to living in Arizona; it was home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49534]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is tremendous potential for Asia to improve efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,  But thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,   Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,    The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62015]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23288]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... easy task. At first sight, it may seem that they have only to proclaim and declare; but in fact, if their words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words, shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. This means, in practice, turning a face of flint toward the easy cliche, the well-worn religious cant and phraseology -- dear, no doubt, to the faithful, but utterly meaningless to those outside the fold. It means learning how people are thinking and how they are feeling; it means learning with patience, imagination and ingenuity the way to pierce apathy or blank lack of understanding. I sometimes wonder what hours of prayer and thought lie behind the apparently simple and spontaneous parables of the Gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6343]]></link><description><![CDATA[For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes could and did err and because councils could and did err that Luther came to realize the supremacy of Scripture. Luther did not despise church authority, nor did he repudiate church councils as having no value. His praise of the Council of Nicaea is noteworthy. Luther and the Reformers did not mean by "Sola Scriptura" that the Bible is the only authority in the church; rather, they meant that the Bible is the only infallible authority in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness to Our Lord, for the good of other souls, and then you have practiced intercession. Never mind if it all seems for the time very second-hand. The less you get out of it, the nearer it approaches to being something worth offering; and the humiliation of not being able to feel as devout as we want to be, is excellent for most of us. Use vocal prayer... very slowly, trying to realize the meaning with which it is charged and remember that... you are only a unit in the Chorus of the Church, so that the others will make good the shortcomings you cannot help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961</guid></item></channel></rss>