<?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 Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20655]]></link><description><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27578]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34275]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die Leut'! Sind sonst wackre Bruder  Aber das denkt, wie ein Seifensieder.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful,  From all old flower fields ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful,  From all old flower fields of the soul;   And, weary seeker of the best,    We come back laden from out quest,     To find that all the sages said      Is in the Book our mothers read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19710]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   To pious and peaceable persons [Augustine] gives this advice: that they should correct in mercy whatever they can; that what they cannot, they should patiently bear, and affectionately lament, till God either reform and correct it, or, at the harvest, root up the tares and sift out the chaff. All pious persons should study to fortify themselves with these counsels, lest, while they consider themselves as valiant and strenuous defenders of righteousness, they depart from the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the only Kingdom of righteousness. For since it is the will of God that the communion of his church should be maintained in this external society, those who, from an aversion of wicked men, destroy the token of that society, enter on a course in which they are in great danger of falling from the communion of the saints.   .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices of those early Christians; but what struck them was the immensity of their inheritance in Christ. Take that one phrase (surely the most daring that the mind of man ever conceived), "We are the heirs of God." That is what they felt about it, that not God Himself could have a fuller life than theirs, and that even He would share all that He had with them! Tremendous words that stagger through their sheer audacity! And yet, here we are, whispering about the steepness of the way, the soreness of the self-denial, the heaviness of the cross, whining and puling, giving to those outside the utterly grotesque impression that religion is a gloomy kind of thing, a dim, monastic twilight where we sit and shiver miserably, out of the sunshine that God made for us, and meant us to enjoy -- that it is all a doing that nobody would naturally choose, and refraining from what everyone would naturally take: a species of insurance money grudgingly doled out lest some worse thing come upon us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the Atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins -- the way to madness of the brain and despair of the heart... Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk more. -Erica Jong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14791]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk more. -Erica Jong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution to countries where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34367]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution to countries where they are persecuted. Are we living up to this commitment?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover   A prisoner of war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover   A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. •Sir Winston Churchill  The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one another as to which of two opposed dogmas was the truth, they had been arrayed against one another by more deep-seated and vital causes, and merely inscribed at the last the dogmas on their standards or chose them as watchwords or symbols. We are tired of those elaborate discussions of the fine, wire-drawn, subtle distinctions between sects, and those elaborate discussions of the principles involved in heresies, and we desire to see the real differences in life and conduct receive more attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typically, they look for at least 100-dB isolation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typically, they look for at least 100-dB isolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30972</guid></item></channel></rss>