<?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 hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very realistic plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very realistic plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favour is half granted, when graciously refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to the things which you think are important. The fate of humanity is in his or her hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32663]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[main line of investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315]]></link><description><![CDATA[main line of investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fun being a kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fun being a kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,   That borrow their behaviors from the great,    Grow great by your example and put on     The dauntless spirit of resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47884]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.   ... Simone Weil  August 18, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.   ... Simone Weil  August 18, 2000   My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.  ... C. J. Briejèr, letter to Rachel Carson August 19, 2000   The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item></channel></rss>