<?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[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Local churches which are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Local churches which are respected and even attended by "the public" -- interpreted as people who under different circumstances would not feel obliged to attend church at all -- are often found to be those where, on a Christian judgment, the gospel seems to be most faithfully preached. Such churches may invite and suffer temporary periods of unpopularity -- by standing up for West Indian immigrants, say, or refusing indiscriminate baptism. But on the whole, the storms are weathered by churches, and ministers, whose interest in the community and presentation of the faith [are] alert and genuine. Even so, the Church has every excuse for getting itself disliked: none at all for escaping notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to be prepared on the local level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to be prepared on the local level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.  ... John Henry Newman, "What is a University?" August 12, 2000   Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy;  But optics sharp it needs I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56260]]></link><description><![CDATA[For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy;  But optics sharp it needs I ween,   To see what is not to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56875]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55831]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His death impacted many people, ... He enjoyed life to the fullest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33031]]></link><description><![CDATA[His death impacted many people, ... He enjoyed life to the fullest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child is learning academic skills while helping others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child is learning academic skills while helping others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Rainmaker,' those are great opportunities for men, and we selected the others for the female actors on campus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the heart of an angry crowd, their enthusiasm soured suddenly into a growling muttering. He applied it confidently to a man who, under the inspiration of His friendship, had broken with his sorry past and his old selfish, unclean ways, and was doing what he could to put things right. Now that, He said, is what I call a saved man. Very solemnly He tells us that on the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked the questions we are expecting, but others that will puzzle and startle us. Those folk on the left hand were, as far as we hear, respectable folk; their business books were straight, their home life was kindly, they themselves were clean-living men and women: nothing whatever is laid to their charge excepting this, that they lived in a world needing their help and were too absorbed in something -- what it was, we are not told; it may have been their souls -- to give what aid they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what? It takes a lot of fight to get things to change and get things to be better. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36172]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what? It takes a lot of fight to get things to change and get things to be better. We're prepared to do it. We're not going to walk away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,   Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61047]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law. It does the work of all the graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue. For as the love of sin makes a man sin against all his own reason, and all the discourses of wisdom, and all the advices of his friends, and without temptation and without opportunity, so does the love of God: it makes a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting and exterior disciplines, temperate in the midst of feasts, and is active enough to choose it without any intermedial appetites, and reaches at glory through the very heart of grace, without any other aims but those of love. It is a grace that loves God for Himself, and our neighbors for God. The consideration of God's goodness and bounty, the experience of those profitable and excellent emanations from Him, may be, and most commonly are, the first motive of our love; but when we are once entered, and have tasted the goodness of God, we love the spring for its own excellency, passing from passion to reason, from thanking to adoring, from sense to spirit, from considering ourselves to union with God: and this is the image and little representation of heaven; it is beatitude in picture, or rather the infancy and beginning of glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we discourse   The freezing hours away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2418]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words that weep, and tears that speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words that weep, and tears that speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mechanism is always important, because without understanding it, it's difficult to predict how animal data would translate to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mechanism is always important, because without understanding it, it's difficult to predict how animal data would translate to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I wouldn't eat poultry in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;  All Nature's children feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51080]]></link><description><![CDATA[At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;  All Nature's children feel the matin spring   Of life reviving, with reviving day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,  Dropped from an Angel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,  Dropped from an Angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46028</guid></item></channel></rss>