<?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[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I have pretty much a green light on offense, and that's why it's working out so good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal part of faith is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal part of faith is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity:  To every mother's heart forlorn,   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity:  To every mother's heart forlorn,   In every house the Christ is born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is the nose of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is the nose of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1900]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52232]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65941]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were an Al Qaeda guy, I wouldn't go out for a pizza. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1683]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were an Al Qaeda guy, I wouldn't go out for a pizza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55143]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't hit my head. I like track a lot. I knew I wanted to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25727]]></link><description><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63695]]></link><description><![CDATA[By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024]]></link><description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558</guid></item></channel></rss>