<?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[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick in a few days. I thank God for the doctor at the clinic in Joes. They drew her blood and said, 'You have 48 hours to get her to Children's (Hospital).' I was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of Christianity, the unity of Christians could be easily realized. But unfortunately this has not proved true, though we can consider it fortunate indeed that, as this inability to unify proves, the letter of the Bible cannot really replace the living Christ as the center of our faith. The Bible is the expression of the life and work of God, and since life is greater than its expression, it cannot be expressed completely in any logical or theological form. Therefore, the Bible itself cannot escape being understood in many different ways. Thus we see how in the wisdom of God it is impossible in practice to make the Scriptures the end or final authority to those who live in fellowship with the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,  Che viene e va; e quei la discolora   Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Continued from yesterday]  4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7692]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Continued from yesterday]  4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion. When such things are taking place as give enemies of religion an occasion for reproach, it is time for the church to ask God, "What will become of Thy great name?"  5. When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.  6. When the wicked triumph over the church, and revile them, it is time to seek for a Revival of Religion.  7. When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city. The church ought to put out the fires of hell which are laying hold of the wicked. Sleep! Should the firemen sleep, and let the whole city burn down, what would be thought of such firemen? And yet their guilt would not compare with the guilt of Christians who sleep while sinners around them are sinking stupid into the fires of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican thyme?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own efforts or contriving, but must be received as the gift of God's Spirit, working in and among us. The work of the group is to keep open the channels of receptiveness through study, discipline, prayer, and self-offering. When a group learns to live in this faith, it can keep the lines of endeavor tentative and sensitive to new headings and possibilities, on the one hand; and, on the other, move forward resolutely under such light as is now given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to be her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the scientists developing this were physicists who were doing military-directed physics in Russia and have moved on to more peaceful programs in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32107]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match up with them when you try to jump up into a zone. When you try to match up man-to-man, you have those back-door cuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever, therefore, is foolish, ridiculous, vain, or earthly, or sensual, in the life of a Christian is something that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever, therefore, is foolish, ridiculous, vain, or earthly, or sensual, in the life of a Christian is something that ought not to be there; it is a spot and a defilement that must be washed away with tears of repentance. But if anything of this kind runs all through the course of our life, if we allow ourselves in things that are either vain, foolish, or sensual, we renounce our profession. For as sure as Jesus Christ was wisdom and holiness, as sure as He came to make us like Himself and to be baptized into His Spirit, so sure is it that none can be said to keep to their Christian profession but they who, to the utmost of their power, live a wise and holy and heavenly life. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  By giving humans freedom of will, the Creator has chosen to limit His own power. He risked the daring experiment of giving us the freedom to make good or bad decisions, to live decent or evil lives, because God does not want the forced obedience of slaves. Instead, He covets the voluntary love and obedience of sons who love Him for Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I'm not that good a rock star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.  They are but beggars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.  They are but beggars that can count their worth;   But my true love is grown to such excess    I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a D in English, I did a hairdressing course and a beauty certificate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. So he automatically writes off any Biblical account of a wondrous happening which suggests that there is an order of reality transcending the observable regularities of nature and occasionally breaking in upon them. Nor is rational skepticism content with jettisoning the Bible's miracle stories. It also dismisses other passages on the grounds that they reflect the ignorance and prejudice of a particular age, or the propaganda interests of the Church at a particular stage of its development. Its basic rule of Biblical interpretation is: "When in doubt, throw it out." And the highest scores in the game of radical reductionism are awarded to pedagogues who find the most novel and far-fetched reasons for doubting that any part of the Bible really means what it says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8272</guid></item></channel></rss>