<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/8539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22805]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire words makes mee looke to my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42233]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means forcorrecting our misperceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9956]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57636]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41400]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:  Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywhere the sense of mystery dominates; unless you feel that mystery, all becomes prosaic -- nothing about God is prosaic.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  August 26, 2000 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Have you noticed this? Whatever need or trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible, if only you go on reading till you come to the word God specially has for you. I have noticed this often. Sometimes the special word is in the portion you would naturally read, or in the Psalm for the day, ... but you must go on till you find it, for it is always somewhere. You will know it the moment you come to it, for it will rest your heart.   ... Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways  August 27, 2000 Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.   ... Martin Luther August 28, 2000 Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.  ... St. Augustine, Confessions August 29, 2000 The Divine Perfections. How shall I praise th' eternal God,  That Infinite Unknown? Who can ascend his high abode,   Or venture near his throne? The great invisible! He dwells  Conceal'd in dazzling light: But his all-searching eye reveals  The secrets of the night. Those watchful eyes that never sleep,  Survey the world around; His wisdom is the boundless deep,  Where all our thoughts are drown'd.  He knows no shadow of a change,  Nor alters his decrees; Firm as a rock his truth remains,   To guard his promises.  Justice, upon a dreadful throne,  Maintains the rights of God; While mercy sends her pardons down,  Bought with a Saviour's blood. Now to my soul immortal King,   Speak some forgiving word; Then `twill be double joy to sing  The glories of my Lord.   ... Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, #166  August 30, 2000  As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.  ... Bernard Iddings Bell, God is Not Dead August 31, 2000 Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55184]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the penn'worth of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the penn'worth of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are the shorthand of behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are the shorthand of behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28107]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks of youth in her bloomers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58731]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wish for healing has always been half of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wish for healing has always been half of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66321</guid></item></channel></rss>