<?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[Iron sharpeth iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56218]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25680]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38409]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set on fire - so that the police would have to respond and come down here. And when they did, some of the lads were waiting and had a crack at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52168]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55803]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids gave it all they had. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket, and we've had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids gave it all they had. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket, and we've had a hard time doing that all season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   When evangelicals call the Bible "inerrant", part at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   When evangelicals call the Bible "inerrant", part at least of their meaning is this: that, in exegesis and exposition of Scripture and in building up our biblical theology from the fruits of our Bible study, we may not (1) deny, disregard, or arbitrarily relativize, anything that the biblical writers teach, nor (2) discount any of the practical implications for worship and service that their teaching carries, nor (3) cut the knot of any problem of Bible harmony, factual or theological, by allowing ourselves to assume that the inspired writers were not necessarily consistent either with themselves or with each other. It is because the word "inerrant" makes these methodological points about handling the Bible, ruling out in advance the use of mental procedures that can only lead to reduced and distorted versions of Christianity, that it is so valuable and, I think, so much valued by those who embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19937]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  We might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  We might have said beforehand, if we had been told that God was coming into a man's life, ... "That must be something very terrible and awful. That certainly must rend and tear the life to which God comes. At least, it will separate it and make it unnatural and strange. God fills a bush with His glory and it burns. God enters into the great mountain, and it rocks with earthquake. When he comes to occupy a man, He must distort the humanity which He occupies into some inhuman shape." Instead of that, this new life into which God comes, seems to be the most quietly, naturally human life that was ever seen upon the earth. It glides into its place like sunlight. It seems to make it evident that God and man are essentially so near together, that the meeting of their natures in the life of a God-man is not strange. So always does Christ deal with His own nature, accepting His Divinity as you and I accept our humanity, and letting it shine out through the envelope with which it has most subtly and mysteriously mingled, as the soul is mingled with and shines out through the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day the world will look upon researchon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.Da Vinci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3307]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day the world will look upon researchon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.Da Vinci.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed that our prayers for others flow more easily than those we offer on our own behalf. And it would be nice to accept your view that this just shows we are made to live by charity. I'm afraid, however, I detect two much less attractive reasons for the ease of my own intercessory prayers. One is that I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. And the other is like unto it. Suppose I pray that you may be given grace to withstand your besetting sin (short list of candidates for this post will be forwarded on demand). Well, all the work has to be done by God and you. If I pray against my own besetting sin there will be work for me. One sometimes fights shy of admitting an act to be a sin for this very reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51953]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,  And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5802</guid></item></channel></rss>