<?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[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15704]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is to place as eternity is to time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is to place as eternity is to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56813]]></link><description><![CDATA[...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.   ... George Whitefield, letter   [Thanks to Bill Blake at pilgrimwb@aol.com]  September 7, 2000 Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.   ... Friedrich von Schiller  September 8, 2000   Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle houswife marres the houshold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49024]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle houswife marres the houshold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game came together and they played really well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44336]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a trend that's being done more often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a trend that's being done more often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7100]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us gently by stirring up our conscience. But, in addition, God affects us by determining that in the universe certain causes shall bring about certain effects. Cause and effect is, therefore, the operation of God through normal channels rather than through special channels. We have our normal way of acting when we drive a car. We can more or less put it in "automatic pilot" while we carry on a conversation, but when an emergency arises, we take conscious personal control. I have a hunch that God has something for which this automatic pilot will serve as an illustration. That is, His routine way of operating is cause and effect, and He is in control of it, so that when cause and effect affects us, then God is affecting us. That is what the Apostle Paul means in Galatians when he says, "Do not kid yourself -- God is not blind. What you do, you will get paid for." The causes which we have set in operation by our own personal choices will inevitably bring about certain results. But God is involved because God makes cause and effect to work. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38171]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Cleveland Indians'Wahoo is racistare not also Boston Celtics?naming a team for only partof the city? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19684]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Cleveland Indians'Wahoo is racistare not also Boston Celtics?naming a team for only partof the city?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51365</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/43620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2983</guid></item></channel></rss>