<?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[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62534]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   Here [in the Gospels] is something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   Here [in the Gospels] is something that the layman can hold on to, quite apart from the vagaries of critical scholarship, for it is a portrait unaffected by the authenticity of any particular saying or story. Such an encounter with the historical Jesus is, of course, not the same as Christian faith in him. Even Caiaphas, Herod, and Pontius Pilate encountered him in this way. Christian faith is still a matter of decision -- either this Man is God's redemptive act, or he is not. Nor is the historical Jesus the object of our faith. That object is the Risen Christ preached by the Church. But the Risen Christ is in continuity with the historical Jesus, and it is the historical Jesus which makes the Risen Christ not just an abstraction, but clothes him with flesh and blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can read all the manuals on prayer and listen to other people pray, but until you begin to pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6354]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can read all the manuals on prayer and listen to other people pray, but until you begin to pray yourself you will never understand prayer. It's like riding a bicycle or swimming: You learn by doing.   .. Luis Palau  March 14, 2001   Most evangelicals believe that if a passage of the Bible seems unclear in its meaning, it should be interpreted in the light of Scripture "as a whole". But what does "Scripture as a whole" mean? In practice, if not theory, it means the working systematic theology of the interpreter, or of his own theological tradition. An evangelical... would not hold to that tradition unless he believed that it did represent the wholeness of the biblical witness. Nevertheless, if this state of affairs has been correctly described, he is now in a serious difficulty. For if the Bible must always accord with a theology that has already been accepted, how can the truth of a biblical passage ever confront him afresh with an unfavorable judgment?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up of little words, little deeds, little prayers, little sympathies, adding themselves together in unwearied succession. The Gospel is full of divine attempts to help and heal, in the body, mind and heart, individual men. The completed beauty of Christ's life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty -- talking with the woman at the well; going far up into the North country to talk with the Syrophenician woman; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart, that kept him out of the kingdom of Heaven; shedding a tear at the grave of Lazarus; teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; preaching the Gospel one Sunday afternoon to two disciples going out to Emmaus; kindling a fire and broiling fish, that His disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore after a night of fishing, cold, tired, discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of God's interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed in what is minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the order of Paul's writing [in Romans], even so do thou. First behold thyself diligently in the law of God, and see there thy just damnation. Secondarily, turn thine eyes to Christ, and see there the exceeding mercy of thy most kind and loving Father. Thirdly, remember that Christ made not this atonement that thou shouldest anger God again; neither cleansed he thee, that thou shouldest return (as a swine) unto thine old puddle again: but that thou shouldest be a new creature and live a new life after the will of God and not of the flesh. And be diligent lest through thine own negligence and unthankfulness thou lose this favor and mercy again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires somuch attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22361]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires somuch attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Falstaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Falstaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on tightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,  Dream, and so dream all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,  Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to makethem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to makethem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it was a crucial time because of the difficulties in the technology capital markets. We had to face the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it was a crucial time because of the difficulties in the technology capital markets. We had to face the question of do you continue or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talkers are no good doers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talkers are no good doers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65766]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed by the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather  The multitudinous seas incarnadine,   Making the green one red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is nothing without delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968]]></link><description><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And rides upon the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50584</guid></item></channel></rss>