<?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[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/776]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser de la muger.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31116]]></link><description><![CDATA[More importantly, Arroyo and her defenders must stop attacking the Senate for its probes and allow the truth to come out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16367]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62107]]></link><description><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46683]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The olive tree isthe altar of Allah.On it Allah has placedolives free for all. May Allah allow noneto alter His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The olive tree isthe altar of Allah.On it Allah has placedolives free for all. May Allah allow noneto alter His altars.In protecting treesmay no one falter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zen of flyfishing is that zen mastersdon't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zen of flyfishing is that zen mastersdon't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will not be saved merely because people go to church, ours or any other's. If we seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will not be saved merely because people go to church, ours or any other's. If we seem to say [that the world will be so saved] to the tormented nations, this is only a measure of our failure to see that the Anglican Communion is not an end in itself. And what an impertinence it is when we fail to see that -- when we seem to say to the world that their only hope is in the tepid conventions of our club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8949]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures are rubbing against each other more than ever before in history. We need to be sensitive to ... respect, honor, dignity, and how they are viewed in different societies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are theanvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22669]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are theanvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   No ever did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in his own experience some knowledge of the perplexing uncertainty of this whirligig of time. Yet with his best thought, and largest opportunity, and the application of his highest ability, he cannot penetrate far. But the Christ of God unfolds both its meaning, and its order. He shows that the goal is freedom, and the guidance love. In this way Christ appears direct to the spirit of man, not by its special acquirements, or special ability, but through its common needs and common tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every Christian who takes the time to think seriously about his faith, does so too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  And I said to the man who stood at the gate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light. that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay alert, stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay alert, stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of bright red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40543]]></link><description><![CDATA[[ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of bright red blood.] See that right there from Marcus? ... That was my worst wound of the night, and it came from Marcus. We jumped into one another, and Marcus' braces caught in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw,  Here and there a patch of snow,   Dirtier than the ground below,    Dribbles down a marshy flood;     Ankle-deep you stick in mud      In the meadows while you sing,       "This is Spring."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   And by 'knowledge' here [II Peter 1:2,5,8;2:20;3:18] is not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   And by 'knowledge' here [II Peter 1:2,5,8;2:20;3:18] is not to be understood a mere theoretical knowledge of the truths of Christianity, or the gnosis of the Gnostics; but a realization of these truths influencing the practice and leading to holiness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11457</guid></item></channel></rss>