<?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[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5697]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a lot riding on 'American Idol' and, hopefully for Fox, the show has long coattails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30407]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a lot riding on 'American Idol' and, hopefully for Fox, the show has long coattails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and candidly treated by their fathers do not hesitate to offer them incomplete and halfdone and even defective works, trusting that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted by their fathers, even though they have not quite achieved what their fathers intended. Such children ought we to be, firmly trusting that our services will be approved by our most merciful Father, however small, rude, and imperfect these may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is God's gift to little men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is God's gift to little men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47510]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found the Evangelical faith in which I had been reared confirmed and deepened. Increasingly I rejoiced in the Gospel -- the amazing Good News -- that the Creator of what to us human beings is this bewildering and unimaginably vast universe, so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Everlasting life, I came to see, is not just continued existence, but a growing knowledge -- not merely intellectual but wondering through trust, love, and fellowship -- of Him who alone is truly God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7660]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45197]]></link><description><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames   In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,    And in her eye there hath appeared a fire     To burn the errors that these princes hold      Against her maiden truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors still can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors still can't answer the big question: 'What does it mean for me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43306]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585]]></link><description><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music of the brook silenced all conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music of the brook silenced all conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right after the assault or an abortion service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31443</guid></item></channel></rss>