<?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 Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29040]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur during the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,  Whose artful colour pass'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,  Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,   Obliged to triumph in this legacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole reason of finally becoming superfluous. Of heaven St. John the Divine said, "I saw no temple therein.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can believe that Jesus was a god: what is so hard to credit is that He who hung upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can believe that Jesus was a god: what is so hard to credit is that He who hung upon the cross was the God. That is what you are asked as Christians to believe. And it is the sword, glittering but fearful. It must cut your life away from the standards of this world, away from its thought and its measures, no less than its aims and hopes. Hard and bitter is the separation, and you will be parted from many great and noble men, some perhaps your own teachers, who can accept about Jesus everything but the one thing needful. The Christian faith, if accepted, drives a wedge between its own adherents and the disciples of every other philosophy or religion, however lofty or soaring. And they will not see this; they will tell you that really your views and theirs are the same thing, and only differ in words, which, if only you were a little more highly trained, you would understand. Even among Christ's nominal servants there are many who think a little good-will is all that is needed to bridge the gulf -- a little amiability and mutual explanation, a more careful use of phrases, would soon accommodate Christianity to fashionable modes of speaking and thinking, and destroy all causes of provocation. So they would. But they would destroy also its one inalienable attraction: that of being... a wonder, and a beauty, and a terror -- no dull and drab system of thought, no mere symbolic idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a tree dies, plant another in its place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66350]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a tree dies, plant another in its place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away. - Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The indwelling of Christ's Spirit means not only moral discernment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The indwelling of Christ's Spirit means not only moral discernment but moral power. Paul's count against the Law is that it was impotent through the flesh. Against this impotence Paul sets the ethical competence of the Spirit. "I can do anything in Him who makes me strong," (Phil. 4:13) he exclaims. For his friends in Asia he prays "that God may grant you, according to the wealth of His splendour, to be made strong with power through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your trust in Him." (Eph. 3:16-17) This is the antithesis of the dismal picture presented in Romans 7, and it comes, just as evidently as that, out of experience. Indeed, we may say that the thing above all which distinguished the early Christian community from its environment was the moral competence of its members. In order to maintain this we need not idealize unduly the early Christians. There were sins and scandals at Corinth and Ephesus, but it was impossible to miss the note of genuine power of renewal and recuperation -- the power of the simple person progressively to approximate to his moral ideals in spite of failures. The very fact that the term "Spirit" is used points to a sense of something essentially "supernatural" in such ethical attainments. For the primitive Christians the Spirit was manifested in what they regarded as miraculous. Paul does not whittle away the miraculous sense when he transfers it to the moral sphere. He concentrates attention on the moral miracle as something more wonderful far than any "speaking with tongues." So fully convinced is he of the new and miraculous nature of this moral power that he can regard the Christian as a "new creation." (II Cor. 5:17) This is not the old person at all: it is a "new man," "created in Christ Jesus for good deeds." (Eph. 2:10) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortunately we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very balanced match. Milan played well and produced some good scoring chances that unfortunately we did not turn into goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day  When the sun is out and the wind is still,   You're one month on in the middle of May.    But if you so much as dare to speak,     A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,      A wind comes off a frozen peak,       And you're two months back in the middle of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45587]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have executed the will of God and the rule of law because he killed people, ordered assaults on fighters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have executed the will of God and the rule of law because he killed people, ordered assaults on fighters and he had a big file of corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves, must serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4449]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast   To pierce another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine and that by doing so it will force the Americans to take it seriously and give it a security role in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44994]]></link><description><![CDATA[One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954]]></link><description><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is a wordthat is hardly ever spokenDeceit is a wordthat makes hearts brokenLove is a wordspoken many, many timesHate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is a wordthat is hardly ever spokenDeceit is a wordthat makes hearts brokenLove is a wordspoken many, many timesHate is a wordthat brings out prejudiced crimesTrying is a wordactions taken that are confusingGiving-up is a wordnot or winning but of losingBeginning is a wordthat means a new startForever is a word that doesn't play its partBreeze is a wordtalking about the windFresh is a wordtelling how to begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22055</guid></item></channel></rss>