<?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[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65555</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[We'd like everybody to come to celebrate her life. Some of her friends are going to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like everybody to come to celebrate her life. Some of her friends are going to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe how lucky I am to be here at this job with Eduardo. Some of the most important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe how lucky I am to be here at this job with Eduardo. Some of the most important broadcasters in Latin America have been here, and now here I am. I have a responsibility to do my best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It is not enough to have truth planted in our minds. We must learn and labor to keep the ground clear of thorns and briars, follies and perversities, which have a wicked propensity to choke the word of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's tradition hold that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's tradition hold that there must of necessity be a specialized vocabulary, just as there is in any other specialized form of human activity, whether it is music, architecture, or electronic engineering. To me, at least, this is a thoroughly unsound argument, for Christ did not come into the world to bring men "specialized activity," but life, fuller and more satisfying than it had been ever before. If the churches have made Christianity appear to be some kind of specialized spiritual performance so much the worse for them. The real purpose of Christ, the real relevance of the Gospel, is surely to enable men to live together as sons of God. Human beings, like children, love to have secrets, love to be "in the know." But the Christian religion was never meant to be a secret recipe for living, held by a few. It is Good News for all mankind and, because it is that, the more clearly and intelligibly it can be presented, the more faithfully it is following its Master's purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All that has been resolved is the venue. What both sides have done is buy time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35366</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[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52924]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580]]></link><description><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not singular except in syllable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not singular except in syllable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the land;   Ring in the Christ that is to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66730]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played a short while after it, but then it started swelling and it got really painful. Thankfully, our trainers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played a short while after it, but then it started swelling and it got really painful. Thankfully, our trainers recognized what it was early enough and we got him to a hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. 1170 became intensely curious as to the content of the Scriptures. But he could not read Latin, and so the Scriptures were a closed book to him. However, he hired two money-minded priests, who, in violation of strict regulations, translated the Bible for him into Provençal, the language of southern France. The content of the Word of God made such an impression upon this earnest man that he gave up his business, took upon himself a vow of poverty, and dedicated himself to the simple preaching of the contents of God's Word.  The Latin of the Church only mystified its hearers [but] Waldo's humble preaching edified the souls of men. His words were not spectacular but powerful, as he pleaded with them to repent. Much of his preaching and that of his followers consisted in reciting long passages of Scripture in the vernacular. Many of them could not afford an expensive handwritten copy of the Bible, and the ecclesiastical authorities could too easily rob them of such a book; but they could not erase the words which were treasured in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God's truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when... five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already. Beware of being wise and prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child miseducated is a child lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child miseducated is a child lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY This the month, and this the happy morn,  Wherein the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8093]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY This the month, and this the happy morn,  Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing,    That he our deadly forfeit should release,  And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. That glorious form, that light insufferable,  And that far-beaming blaze majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council-table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity He laid aside, and, here with us to be.    Forsook the courts of everlasting day,  And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.  Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein  Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,  To welcome him to this his new abode,  Now while the heaven, by the Sun's team untrod,    Hath took no print of the approaching light,  And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright? See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards haste with odours sweet! Oh, run! present them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet,    And join thy voice unto the Angel Quire,  From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3340</guid></item></channel></rss>