<?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[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   What are the gifts of biblical faith to the secular university? Education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   What are the gifts of biblical faith to the secular university? Education can receive from the Bible a faith concerning man far more realistic than the naive faith by which education has tried to live. Not man as "pure reason": his reason is not pure. Not man as incipient angel: he can turn any structure... to good or to demonic purpose. Not man with his steps on the highroad called evolution: he is relatively free and, therefore, can and does wreck any evolution unless some Grace constantly renews his onward journey. Not man who by his science is sure to fashion a "brave new world"; by science he can destroy the world. Not man as centrally and characteristically a reasonable creature who needs only that his mind shall be educated to build a reasonable world. Not man regarded in any naive faith, but man as potentially divine and potentially unworthy, who stands always in need of help from beyond the confines of the natural order. If education confronts this faith, education will know that the mind's adventure also, like all things human, stands in need of redemption; and it can then proceed with lowliness, and thus with the power and light which are the reward of the lowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52007]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40321]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always want to change the match after it's over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when I forget about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when I forget about me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14452]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would thick my blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35208</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[Iron hand in a velvet glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents   Christian freedom, in my opinion, consists of three parts. The first: that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents   Christian freedom, in my opinion, consists of three parts. The first: that the consciences of believers, in seeking assurance of their justification before God, should rise above and advance beyond the law, forgetting all law righteousness... The second part, dependent upon the first, is that consciences observe the law, not as if constrained by the necessity of the law, but that freed from the law's yoke they willingly obey God's will... The third part of Christian freedom lies in this: regarding outward things that are of themselves "indifferent", we are not bound before God by any religious obligation preventing us from sometimes using them and other times not using them, indifferently... Accordingly, it is perversely interpreted both by those who allege it as an excuse for their desires that they may abuse God's good gifts to their own lust and by those who think that freedom does not exist unless it is used before men, and consequently, in using it have no regard for weaker brethren... Nothing is plainer than this rule: that we should use our freedom if it results in the edification of our neighbor, but if it does not help our neighbor, then we should forego it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men born only to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men born only to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4801]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42421]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on a landlocked lake. There is not a whole lot of on-ground stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27270]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went right up to the top and stayed there for the first six years when Dennis was on. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went right up to the top and stayed there for the first six years when Dennis was on. Those were our highest-rated years. Dennis and I became over the years fast friends and stayed friends through the last 50 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frogs Asking for a KingThe Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frogs Asking for a KingThe Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King. Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid themselves in the depths of the pool. But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt. After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern them. When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King. Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item></channel></rss>