<?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[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, too, and hired him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really getting it going towards the end of the season. I really think this week the team's chemistry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really getting it going towards the end of the season. I really think this week the team's chemistry is great. They are really excited and are supporting each other going into the final stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2615]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option program that will enable them to share in the growth potential of the company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made poetry a mere mechanic art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Made poetry a mere mechanic art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44522]]></link><description><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51801]]></link><description><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye waft me to summers of old,   When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,    And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,     Like treasures of silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... they will have waited so long for so little and have been willing to spend a long, long time in the red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of Man and the universality of His Kingdom, like no other. It has taught parents that to bring children into the world is not a horrible crime. It has led them to see Christ and His redemption of humanity through all the mists of our teachings and our qualifications. It has explained the nature of His Kingdom to the hearts even of the poorest. Christ has preached at the fonts, when we have been darkening counsel in the pulpits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18993]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive thyself little, and others much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive thyself little, and others much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50116</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5001]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit  Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything was as normal as could be for something like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything was as normal as could be for something like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49639</guid></item></channel></rss>