<?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[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19777]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,   And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64774]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship Him, to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from time to time, in the midst of your business, even every moment if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion; but act with a general confidence in God, with love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11290]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers have made use of this fact to point out helpful spiritual implications; and yet, by New Testament times, the word carried no such denotation as "called out." It was simply the word for "assembly" or "congregation." It so happened that in the Greek city-states an assembly of the citizenry resulted from the people being called out of their city and summoned from their farms to participate in such gatherings. Even though the etymology of the word remains, its real meaning is just "assembly," and a Greek-speaking person of New Testament times would be no more inclined to understand ekklesia in its original etymological value of "called out" than we today would recognize "God be with you" in "good-by," which, as we may learn from the dictionary, was derived from the longer phrase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They called the windlackadaisical..but because he in freedom blowsthe world will neverlack for daisies..(to Laurie Otto Milwaukee Wisconsin advocate of wild lawns)http://www.epa.gov/greenacreshttp://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a really satisfying feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  There is a pride of faith, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  There is a pride of faith, more unforgiveable and dangerous than the pride of the intellect. It reveals a split personality in which faith is "observed" and appraised, thus negating that unity born of a dying-unto-self, which is the definition of faith. To "value" faith is to turn it into a metaphysical magic, the advantages of which ought to be reserved for a spiritual elite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I don't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I don't see any major break in any of these. I wouldn't be surprised to see still 3.5 percent to 4 percent CPI for us for this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10611]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4958]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60001]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of mind, when out of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of mind, when out of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item></channel></rss>