<?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[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28503]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event sort of fades from view. Benedict is obviously determined that is not going to happen. He's trying very hard to make sure the focus is on the ritual, not the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</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[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,   And only vocal with the Maker's praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7901]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for dignity; I have also no coubt that there are times when it makes for complete irrelevance; for, if there is one thing that is true of religion it is that it must always be expressible in contemporary terms. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not my area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not my area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28387]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a core group of some of the best players in Georgia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41722]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a core group of some of the best players in Georgia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any thoughts but those of the world to come. Here we gather together for no earthly business, but for a purpose of one sort only; and that purpose is the same for which saints and angels are met together in that innumerable company before the throne of God. If there is a place on earth which, however faintly and dimly, shadows out the courts of God on high, surely it is where His people are met together, in all their weakness and ignorance and sin, in their poor and low estate, yet with humble and faithful hearts, in His House of Prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</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[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced that men did not know God. They can't, He said, or they could not live as they are doing. Some of them are so anxious and worried, with all God's care and strength and love to lean against! They cannot know of it, and be so fidgety and nervous as they are. Some of them are afraid. Their consciences have drawn so grim a picture of Him that fearfully they shrink out of His presence, wish there were not God! Frightened of God, with His free and full and eager forgiveness, with His incredible generosity, with His compassionate heart that nobody can sour into illwill, do what he may. And even the best of them are not quite sure. Their faith at most is but a timorous hope, and a trembling perhaps; no more. Often in the Synagogue He had watched them sobbing out their penitential psalms and begging God to turn from anger and be gracious toward them... And it amazed Christ. Look at His sun, He cries, how it streams down in all its midday fullness on the most unworthy, and at the rain, how it falls healingly upon the fields of the least grateful, and how He keeps thrusting His benefits and blessings into the most soiled hands, loading the most impossible people with His kindnesses. If only I could make them see God as He really is: if only they could realize that He is their Father, that what their own child is to them, that, and far more, each of them is to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: Romans 8:14,16. Ephesians 1:13,14. The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit Why should the children of a king   Go mourning all their days? Great Comforter, descend and bring   Some tokens of thy grace. Dost though not dwell in all thy saints,   And seal the heirs of heaven? When wilt thou banish my complaints,   And shew my sins forgiven? Assure my conscience of her part   In the Redeemer's blood; And bear thy witness with my heart,   That I am born of God. Thou are the earnest of his love,   The pledge of joys to come; And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,   Will safe convey me home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31074]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped me out tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,  Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,  Because the one so near the other is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, all of us against the foreigner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who compromise life on behalf of souls, for which Christ died. Whenever, by exertion in any unselfish cause, health is broken or fortune impaired, or influential friends estranged, the follower of Christ is called an enthusiast, a fanatic, or even more plainly a man of unsound mind. He may be comforted by remembering that Jesus was said to be beside Himself when teaching and healing left Him not leisure even to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item></channel></rss>