<?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[The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky;  The lightning flies, the thunder roars;   And big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky;  The lightning flies, the thunder roars;   And big waves lash the frightened shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.   ... John Henry Newman  September 10, 2000   Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.   ... Luis Palau  September 11, 2000   Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.   ... Robert Louis Stevenson  September 12, 2000   Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   In this state of things I saw no remedy but faith and patience. The passage of Scripture which subdued and controlled my mind was this, "The servant of the Lord must not strive." It was painful indeed to see the church, with the exception of the aisles, almost forsaken; but I thought that if God would only give a double blessing to the congregation that did attend, there would on the whole be as much good done as if the congregation were doubled and the blessing limited to only half the amount. This comforted me many, many times, when, without such a reflection, I should have sunk under my burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the current flies   Each bound it chafes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come at us as hard as they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They might not even find them. Might not even find him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They might not even find them. Might not even find him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47626]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, and the engine will run very poorly, if at all, on that mixture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play, ... If I stay (with the Giants), I guess I have to play harder and work harder to recover that playing time I lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  I will tell you what to hate: hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, oppression, injustice; hate pharisaism. Hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, godlike hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories are all we really own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memories are all we really own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63271]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving heart is the truest wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- whether these assumptions include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- whether these assumptions include the existence of a personal God, or whether they begin with non-rational directionally-emergent forces governed by statistical probabilities. Our argument does not claim that evidences are so clear that faith is not needed. We do intend to imply, however, that the choice of a set of assumptions is a moral choice. Adherence to an epistemology is not something which merely "happens to" a person, but instead it reflects a component of his moral development. In some sense he is, in my judgment, morally responsible for adopting an epistemology even though it can be neither proved nor disproved to the satisfaction of those who oppose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was probably the first time I've been totally impressed, 100 percent. We wrestled the toughest competition -- top-ranked wrestlers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28357]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was probably the first time I've been totally impressed, 100 percent. We wrestled the toughest competition -- top-ranked wrestlers -- and just went after it. They all beat top-ranked wrestlers whether they placed in the tournament or not. And to come out with a third place trophy and missing two of our guns, man, that's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,   Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56548]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I have never been able to substitute any desire for that, or to accept any of the different schemes for satisfaction of that men have desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466</guid></item></channel></rss>