<?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[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give it only a moral connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its root in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love, pride, these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and reverence for God's will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burststhrough it will blow up everything in its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   The belief in baptismal regeneration of infants, which had... become almost universal [in the middle ages], and the reliance on mysterious sacramental efficacy for sanctification and heavenly admission, strongly militated against regeneration and spiritual reality within the Church. The complete professionalization of a priestly ministry largely eliminated laymen from direct evangelism and robbed them of the missionary spirit, since they were not to be trusted to teach and could not validly administer the saving symbols. The reliance on organization and ceremonial grace, along with the growing concept of the representative relation of the Pope on earth to the Christ in heaven, involved a practical ignoring of the Holy Spirit as the divinely ordained Counterpart of the Christ and the informing soul of the Church... The vast territorial extent of Christianity and the very general ignorance of world geography made it possible for Christians to lose sight of the non-Christian world and to feel, even if somewhat vaguely, that the Christian task was complete, so far as its world occupation was concerned. The Mohammedan growth had encircled the Christian territories. The relations between Christendom and the Mohammedan world fostered anything else than a spirit of helpfulness and a disposition to give the blessings of the one to the other. Christian information about the heathen world was largely cut off by... Mohammedanism; and in order to reach the heathen, missionaries would have to make their way through Mohammedan territory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers lead but to the renewal of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers lead but to the renewal of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to think that will translate to the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63271]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving heart is the truest wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If half thy outward graces had been placed About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If half thy outward graces had been placed About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that chastens one, chastens 20. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49328]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that chastens one, chastens 20.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of sighte, out of mynde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of sighte, out of mynde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60383]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60383</guid></item></channel></rss>