<?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[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is more vulnerable to Islam than the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must payattention to it. There is no substitute for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must payattention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration,knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your coreof inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let themoving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on thesurface of your being.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56183]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8539]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.   ... Charles Haddon Spurgeon August 4, 2000 Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.   ... William Barclay, The Plain Man's Book of Prayers, Introduction  August 5, 2000 Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syracuse will be happy to see that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syracuse will be happy to see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25045]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  The great wonder is the living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  The great wonder is the living fountain of love and joy which Christ poured into and through this 'poor little man'. [Francis] always knew where the real miracle lay. It was not in things that happened to his body, though they were wonderful enough. It was not to be found in the fact that birds and beasts, even the wolf of Gubbio, felt the spell of his spirit. It was the radiance of light and love breaking across the darkness and hate of the world and his time. He loved lepers. He loved robbers and changed their lives. He loved beggars in their rags. He loved rich men, too, and members of the Church, who needed him as much as the robbers did. He brought Christianity out of forms and creeds and services into the open air, in action and into the movements of life. He changed the entire line of march of religion in the Western World. Brother Masseo, half jesting, asked him once why the whole world was running after him, not very comely, not very wise, not of noble birth. "Why after thee?" "God chose me," Francis answered, "because He could find no one more worthless, and He wished by me to confound the nobility and grandeur, the strength and beauty and learning of the world." But the real answer is that here at last in this wonderful man was an organ of that Spirit which was in Christ, and a marvelous transmitter of it to the world. The divine agape went out into men's lives through him. Here was a childlike lover of men, ready, if need be, to be crucified for love, but also ready in humble everyday tasks to reveal this love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I repeat once again, Playboy Indonesia has not violated any Indonesian laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I repeat once again, Playboy Indonesia has not violated any Indonesian laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have enough equity going into this are much more insulated and can continue on with their projects. Those who were reaching quite a bit could be in a bind now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   To read or look upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that every man will hearken to it, charm we never so wisely. The prophets, for all their passionate sincerity, for all their courageous simplifyings of the Gospel, will meet many deaf adders who stop their ears. We must reckon with this certain fact, and refuse to be daunted by it. But also there comes a point where accommodation can go no further. It is the Gospel we have to present, however we do it. We cannot hope to do it unless we walk humbly with the modern man, as well as with God, unless we are much more eager to learn from him and about him, than to instruct him. God help us, it is all very difficult. But was there ever a task better worth trying to do, or one in which, whether we fail or succeed, we more surely find our freedom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19604]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're waist deep in the Big Muddyand the big fool says to push onsinging about an incident in whichmarine recruits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're waist deep in the Big Muddyand the big fool says to push onsinging about an incident in whichmarine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28710]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63601</guid></item></channel></rss>