<?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[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb, If I were a Wise Man,  I would do my part, -- But what I can, I give Him,  Give my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52062]]></link><description><![CDATA[...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very difficult to root out. When summarized in a few neat words or phrases, these gems of wisdom become substitutes for thought, and gradually take on much of the status of revealed truth. Occasionally, some iconoclast sees fit to challenge one of them, and a brief flurry ensues, after which things go on about as before. It is easy to think of plenty of ideas that are passing, if they have not already passed, beyond the stage of effective discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52062</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[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is the best garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49891]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is the best garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35626]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us. Once we got into our game, we played really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60831]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always flowers for those who want to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9513]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32340]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. Then, we need basic science to figure out how it is helping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's bold in character, especially with that rocker-red. Her bedroom eyes give us a come-hither kind of look. But ... she wants you to know just when you have her figured out, she's gonna fool you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48762]]></link><description><![CDATA[That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awakening has begun! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That's as long as you're not hurting anybody. And find a place where you're not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and don't destroy anything valuable that you'll regret later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46048]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1049]]></link><description><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The shortest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The shortest possible description of a Christian -- a description with which the New Testament would fully agree -- is that a Christian is a person who can say: "For me Jesus Christ is Lord." Herbert Butterfield's words about facing the future are good: "Hold to Christ, and for the rest be totally uncommitted." Any alleged conversion which does not leave one totally committed solely to Jesus Christ is incomplete and imperfect. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26074</guid></item></channel></rss>