<?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[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46709]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2730]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest the offence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56396]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest the offence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13754]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6789]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34446]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shot the lights out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34446</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[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the connotation of "message bearer". The prophets were men called by God to serve as His messengers to a stubborn and unheeding people. They were always careful to point out that they were not voicing their own wisdom. Their warnings, entreaties, and promises were always prefaced by the awesome proclamation: "Thus says the Lord..." When the prophets did engage in prognostication, they usually were concerned with events which were fairly close at hand, such as the Assyrian conquest of Israel and the Babylonian conquest of Judah (both of which they foretold with deadly accuracy). But occasionally a prophet's vision ranged farther into the future, to the day when God would enter into a new covenant with his rebellious children. The hope of reconciliation was often linked with the coming of a very particular person, a Messiah or Savior.  What made the prophets so sure that they had a right--nay, a duty, to speak in the name of God? It is clear from their writings that they were not megalomaniacs who confused their own thoughts with the voice of God. On the contrary, they were humble men, awe-stricken by the responsibilities thrust upon them... The prophets minced no words in their indictments of the sins of Israel and Judah, and they trod especially hard on the toes of the rich, the powerful, and the pious. The Establishment responded then as some church members are wont to respond now when a preacher speaks out on controversial public issues: "One should not preach of such things!" (Micah 2:6).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/311]]></link><description><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470]]></link><description><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37986]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem  Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65690]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26823]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its international ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its international engagements, notably the roadmap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8215]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That be far from Thee, Lord!" We are careful, in our unbelief, over the divine dignity, of which He is too grand to think. Better pleasing to God ... is the audacity of Job, who, rushing into His presence, and flinging the door of His presence-chamber to the wall, like a troubled -- it may be angry -- but yet faithful child, calls aloud in the ear of Him whose perfect Fatherhood he has yet to learn, "Am I a sea or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me?"... The devotion of God to His creatures is perfect; He does not think about Himself, but about them; He wants nothing for Himself, but finds His blessedness in the outgoing of blessedness. Ah! it is a terrible -- shall it be a lonely glory, this? We will draw near with our human response, our abandonment of self in the faith of Jesus. He Lives Himself to us -- shall we not give ourselves to Him? Shall we not give ourselves to each other whom He loves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is made of a green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6087]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12235]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,   Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4501</guid></item></channel></rss>