<?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[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep breathand say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is right when he insists that prayer, in its plainest meaning, is a petition addressed to God. When Jesus laid the duty of petition upon his disciples, He went on to assert the reasonableness of man's asking and God's answering. Jesus argues along the line of reason that, if an earthly parent does the best in his power for his children, ... the Almighty and All-Wise Love, of which human love is only the shadow, will do better still for His great family; and therefore our Master teaches that men ought everywhere to pray, without fear, with hope, and without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do itnow. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63694]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481]]></link><description><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in vital relation to a new life in which sin is overcome... is entirely legitimate, and it touches a weak point in the traditional Protestant doctrine. Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers tells us that he was brought up -- such was the effect of the current orthodoxy upon him -- in a certain distrust of good works. Some were certainly wanted, but not as being themselves salvation, only, as he puts it, as tokens of justification. It was a distinct stage in his religious progress when he realised that true justification sanctifies, and that the soul can and ought to abandon itself spontaneously and joyfully to do the good that it delights in... An atonement that does not regenerate... is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33498]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21500]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By selling, you're making an ethical statement. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41560]]></link><description><![CDATA[By selling, you're making an ethical statement. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all cells in the same body of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all cells in the same body of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3324]]></link><description><![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22409]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33097]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When we're swimming, he doesn't even have to say anything. Just the thought of him being there forces you to try harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you have said I will consider; what you have to say  I will with patience hear, and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9867]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you have said I will consider; what you have to say  I will with patience hear, and find a time   Both meet to hear and answer such high things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27231]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43531]]></link><description><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can definitely handle whatever they throw at him. Johnny's a cool cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30700]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can definitely handle whatever they throw at him. Johnny's a cool cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30700</guid></item></channel></rss>