<?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[And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave.  A better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24831]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave.  A better buckler I can soon regain,   But who can get another life again?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13415]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in the Lord's Prayer would seem almost rude. One does not find the optative forms of polite petition so characteristic of elaborate requests made to earthly and heavenly potentates. Rather than employing such august forms, the Christians made their requests to God in what seem to be blunt imperatives. This does not mean that Christians lacked respect for their heavenly father, but it does mean that they were consistent with a new understanding of Him. In the tens of thousands of papyri fragments which have been rescued from the rubbish heaps of the ancient Greek world, one finds the imperative forms used constantly between members of a family. When the Christians addressed God as "Father," it was perfectly natural therefore for them to talk to Him as intimately as they would to their own father. Unfortunately, the history of our own English language has almost reversed this process. Originally, men used "thou" and "thee" in prayer because it was the appropriate familiar form of address; but now these words have become relegated to prayer alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No herb can remedy the anguish of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50747]]></link><description><![CDATA[No herb can remedy the anguish of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And the one bird singing alone to his nest.   And the one star over the tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars united in their spheres,   Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,    Where mingled and yet separate appears     The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd      Through the serene and placid glassy deep,       Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God,   Who has called us to serve You, In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God,   Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the world's affairs,   When we stumble, hold us; When we fall, lift us up;   When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us; When we turn from what is good, turn us back;   And bring us at last to Your glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a mind that's innocent    'Tis only iron, wood and stone.     [Fr., Doubles grilles a gros cloux,      Triples portes, forts verroux,       Aux ames vraiment mechantes        Vous representez l'enfer;         Mais aux ames innocentes          Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60784]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was time I got real aggressive inside. The coaches have been telling me when I get the ball inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was time I got real aggressive inside. The coaches have been telling me when I get the ball inside, to score it instead of passing it back outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62641]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's. For, when we open the New Testament, it is to come upon whole companies of excited people, their faces all aglow, their hearts dazed and bewildered by the immensity of their own good fortune. Apparently they find it difficult to think of anything but this amazing happening that has befallen them; quite certainly they cannot keep from laying almost violent hands on every chance passer-by, and pouring out yet once again the whole astounding story. And always, as we listen, they keep throwing up their hands as if in sheer despair, telling us it is hopeless, that it breaks through language, that it won't describe, that until a man has known Christ for himself he can have no idea of the enormous difference He makes. It is as when a woman gives a man her heart; or when a little one is born to very you; or when, after long lean years of pain and greyness, health comes back. You cannot really describe that; you cannot put it into words, not adequately. Only, the whole world is different, and life gloriously new. Well, it is like that, they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,   And horrow heavy sat on every mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30099]]></link><description><![CDATA[What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by these rather unjustified increases in interest rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7631]]></link><description><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book  Wherein who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes,  And steer to Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item></channel></rss>