<?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[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the concerns of the present world. They know indeed that they are mortal, but they do not feel it. The truth rests in their understandings, and cannot gain admission into their hearts. This speculative persuasion is altogether different from that strong practical impression of the infinite importance of eternal things, which, attended with a proportionate sense of the shortness and uncertainty of all below, while it prompts to activity from a conviction that the night cometh when no man can work, produces a certain firmness of texture, which hardens us against the buffetings of fortune, and prevents our being very deeply penetrated by the cares and interests, the good or evil, of this transitory state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everythingelse. You will see it coming into your life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everythingelse. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached toneeding it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men, so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27003]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men, so little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If America's seen as being indifferent or even attacking the prophet, a lot of Muslims are going to say it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If America's seen as being indifferent or even attacking the prophet, a lot of Muslims are going to say it's an attack on Islam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54880]]></link><description><![CDATA[As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically and religiously; a process only finds its meaning in its goal. However far off be the Beatific Vision, to see the King in His glory, "to know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" -- this is heaven, and "it were a well-spent journey though seven deaths lay between".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a quality tournament. It was a good competitive tournament with excellent teams. The tournament is getting better year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a quality tournament. It was a good competitive tournament with excellent teams. The tournament is getting better year after year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill nothing but time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill nothing but time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7826]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion? It is said that he had a vision -- saw a cross in the sky with the inscription, "In this sign shalt thou conquer." He accepted the new faith promptly, because he thought it would defeat his enemies for him. That is man's Christianity, a means to earthly triumph. And in our present crisis we are appealing to it to defeat the Russians for us. We hear of the life-and-death struggle between Christianity and Communism, the necessity of "keeping God alive as a social force" -- as if our Lord could not survive a Soviet victory! It is a poor sort of faith that imagines Christ defeated by anything men can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;  For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace   Chalks successors their way, nor called upon    For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied     To eminent assistants, but spiderlike      Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note,       The force of his own merit makes his way,        A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys         A place next to the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22646]]></link><description><![CDATA[People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14850]]></link><description><![CDATA[As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43757]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is the deadliest form of denial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34184]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice when my brother joined the band. It seemed like things really clicked and came together with him on bass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just wanted to keep the momentum of this season going. A win and we keep moving forward. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just wanted to keep the momentum of this season going. A win and we keep moving forward. If we lose, it cancels out how well we played at Central (a 61-57 win) on Thursday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64207]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through Him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through Him, a falling in love with our fellows. Of course, such a way is hard and costly, but it is also joyous and rewarding even in the here-and-now. People who follow that Way know beyond all possible argument that they are in harmony with the purpose of God, that Christ is with them and in them as they set about His work in our disordered world. If anyone thinks this is perilous and revolutionary teaching, so much the better. That is exactly what they thought of the teaching of Jesus Christ. The light He brought to bear upon human affairs is almost unbearably brilliant: but it is the light of Truth, and in that light human problems can be solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found no certain home; At last I sought them in His sheltering breast, Who opes His arms and bids the weary come: With Him I found a home, a rest divine, And I, since then, am His, and He is mine. The good I have is from His stores supplied, The ill is only what He deems the best; He for my friend, I'm rich with naught beside, And poor without Him, though of all possessed; Changes may come, I take or I resign Content, while I am His, and He is mine. Whate'er may change, in Him no change is seen, A glorious Sun that wanes not nor declines; Above the storms and clouds He walks serene, And on His people's inward darkness shines; All may depart: I fret not, nor repine, While I my Saviours am, while He is mine. While here, alas! I know but half His love, But half discern Him, and but half adore; But when I meet Him in the realms above I hope to love him better, praise Him more, And feel, and tell, amid the choir divine, How fully I am His, and He is mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;  But like of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8646]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;  But like of each thing that in season grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long event. This is only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long event. This is only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28668</guid></item></channel></rss>