<?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[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the church:  The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    Here is the great truth that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    Here is the great truth that, only when we see things in the light of God, do we see things as they are. It is only when we see things in the light of God that we see what things are really important, and what things are not. These things seem vastly important, things like ambition, and prestige, and money and gain, lose all their value and importance when they are seen in the light of God. Pleasures and habits and social customs which seem permissible enough, are seen for the dangerous things they are when they are seen in the light of God. Things which seem evils, hardship, toil, discipline, unpopularity, even persecution, are seen in their glory when they are seen in the light of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I did feel a friendship with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30351]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I did feel a friendship with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God's side, with His love encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn more of the exceeding beauty of Love: that is worth living for, and surely worth dying to this misery-making self for. [Continued tomorrow]  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 5, 1998  And let us be grateful beyond words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own, is; how horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 6, 1998  Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Prayer is the expression of a good desire. The human heart is full of restless desires, and the prayers of men consist for the most part of the unsifted petitions which are urged by their varying passions. To desire what is right, and to desire it consistently, and passionately, is the first condition of true living; the desires can be corrected only by truth, the mind must apprehend God, and then it will say, "There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me— -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes alone through suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes alone through suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  "The Law", he says, "was our 'pedagogue', until Christ should come." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  "The Law", he says, "was our 'pedagogue', until Christ should come." Those words have been interpreted as though they described the Law as a preparatory education, continued at a higher stage by Christ. That, however, is not quite what Paul meant. The "pedagogue" in Greek society was not a schoolmaster, he did not give lessons. He was a slave who accompanied a boy to school, and both waited upon him and exercised a supervision which interfered with the boy's freedom of action. He is, in fact, a figure in the little allegory which Paul gives us to illustrate the position of the People of God before Christ came. There was a boy left heir to a great estate. He was a minor, and so must have guardians and trustees. He was as helpless in their hands as if he had been a slave. He must live on the allowance they gave him, and follow their wishes from day to day. They gave him a "pedagogue" to keep him out of mischief. He could not please himself, or realize his own purposes and ambitions. Yet all the time he was the heir; the estate was his, and no one else's. Just so the People of God, the Divine Commonwealth, was cramped and fettered by ignorance and evil times. It remained in uneasy expectation of one day coming into active existence. At last the heir came of age: guardians and trustees abdicated their powers, and the grown man possessed in full realization all that was his. So now the fettered life of the Divine Commonwealth bursts its bonds and comes into active existence... The intervention of law was not a reversal of God's original and eternal purpose of pure love and grace towards men, it only subserved that purpose, while it seemed to contradict it, just as the presence of the "pedagogus" might seem to the high-spirited young heir quite contrary to the rights secured to him by his father's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly   Conveys soft whispers to the ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market was quiet due to the uncertain economic situation. It was not supported by the recent strengthening in oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market was quiet due to the uncertain economic situation. It was not supported by the recent strengthening in oil prices or the strengthening in other world stock markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to see out opportunities to use (our talents) to help other people, ... The Miss OSU title will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to see out opportunities to use (our talents) to help other people, ... The Miss OSU title will get me in places that maybe being a student athlete won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21339]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look forward to bringing a new entertainment experience to our customers by delivering programming that consumers want while protecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33897]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look forward to bringing a new entertainment experience to our customers by delivering programming that consumers want while protecting the rights of our partners in the content community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3083</guid></item></channel></rss>