<?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[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on Romans 8:   [Of vv. 4-13]   You must not understand flesh here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on Romans 8:   [Of vv. 4-13]   You must not understand flesh here as denoting only unchastity or spirit as denoting only the inner heart. Here St. Paul calls flesh (as does Christ in John 3) everything born of flesh, i.e. the whole human being with body and soul, reason and senses, since everything in him tends toward the flesh. That is why you should know enough to call that person "fleshly" who, without grace, fabricates, teaches and chatters about high spiritual matters. You can learn the same thing from Galatians, chapter 5, where St. Paul calls heresy and hatred works of the flesh. And in Romans, chapter 8, he says that, through the flesh, the law is weakened. He says this, not of unchastity, but of all sins, most of all of unbelief, which is the most spiritual of vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66690]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave,  Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf   Came I to crouch, as I conceive.    Dame Nature doubtless has designed     A man the monarch of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24405]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326   The first principle of differentiation was laid down by Paul, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326   The first principle of differentiation was laid down by Paul, when dealing with the problems of the spiritual phenomena that had arisen at Corinth... In the confusion of spiritual phenomena, ... it was possible that evil spirits, as well as the Holy Spirit, inspired some of the manifestations. One in particular Paul singles out as being in obvious contradiction to the work of the Spirit of God: "No man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema (cursed)". On the other hand, "No man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit" (I Cor. 12:3). It is difficult to conceive the state of mind of a member of a Christian congregation who would curse the name of Jesus. Yet it is evident that at Corinth, people gave way to such uncontrollable frenzy that, either in folly or in momentary reversion to Judaism or heathenism, they cursed the name in whose honour they had met... But the spirit that inspired disloyalty to Jesus Christ could not be the Holy Spirit, for in Paul's experience and theology, the two beings were, if not identical, at least in perfect harmony of principle and action. This, then, was Paul's first criterion for deciding which spiritual phenomena could be approved by Christians as the work of the Holy Spirit. They must be loyal to Jesus Christ as Lord of life, and as the object of faith and love for every believer. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer used for attending church, but only for good deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44971]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47729]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24099]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies safe for thee    A little nest on the ground."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;  Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,   'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay;    While round his couch's golden rim     The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--      Struggling each other's light to dim,       And catch his last smile e'er he slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know it's a championship game and just have to bounce back and put it behind us and learn from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know it's a championship game and just have to bounce back and put it behind us and learn from our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56343]]></link><description><![CDATA[My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item></channel></rss>