<?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 Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church was forgotten, and the Church, instead of obeying the commandment of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations (in fact, that it was chiefly a missionary association), neglected this great and important calling... It is astonishing how a commandment so simple and distinct, and how a duty which you would have imagined would be eagerly greeted by the impulse of gratitude, of affection, and of compassion, was forgotten for so long a time, in the churches of the Reformation especially. Now we are accustomed to hear of mission work among the heathen nations, and to find that a great multitude of people are interested in it, and regard it with respect; but it was only at the commencement of the last century, and with great difficulty, [that] the attention of the Church was roused to this important duty; and even in the... Church of Scotland there were a number of ministers who thought that the state of heathenism was so utterly corrupt, and that there was so much to be done in our own country, that it was altogether a Utopian project to think of converting the idolaters, and that it was not our imperative duty to trouble ourselves with their wretched condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16103]]></link><description><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet   Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,   For asses might upon thee feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious.  I say: compared to what? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66352]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious.  I say: compared to what?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of Christianity, the unity of Christians could be easily realized. But unfortunately this has not proved true, though we can consider it fortunate indeed that, as this inability to unify proves, the letter of the Bible cannot really replace the living Christ as the center of our faith. The Bible is the expression of the life and work of God, and since life is greater than its expression, it cannot be expressed completely in any logical or theological form. Therefore, the Bible itself cannot escape being understood in many different ways. Thus we see how in the wisdom of God it is impossible in practice to make the Scriptures the end or final authority to those who live in fellowship with the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do whatever you want in the back room of pharmacies, but keep it away from consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do whatever you want in the back room of pharmacies, but keep it away from consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/661]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17930]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back andforth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back andforth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance ofdeath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46868]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,   And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his mortal body, he did it for our example and instruction, to the end that, following his steps, according to our poor ability, we might without offense pass over this present life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saw life steadily and saw it whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saw life steadily and saw it whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675</guid></item></channel></rss>