<?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[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This year he won't be denied. He's just awesome. He is only a sophomore, too. Next year, people better watch out in that heavy weight division.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A drunkards purse is a bottle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A drunkards purse is a bottle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches   To th' bottom of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32301]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. Who's he?' Everybody has their day in the sun, and he had his today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11688]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    The Rev. David Bronnert, who was quoted in CQOD at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    The Rev. David Bronnert, who was quoted in CQOD at the beginning of the month, has kindly sent me the following meditation taken from the church magazine of St. John's Church, Southall, in London, where he serves as vicar, living out, under God, the previous quotation he wrote thirty years ago. I am grateful to brother David for sending me this timely teaching so that I could present it to you. The light shines in the darkness   Candles are always popular for giving a warm romantic glow and this time of year they are to be seen on many different occasions. Of course a candle is easy to blow out! So much so that its flickering light was chosen by Shakespeare as a picture of the transitory nature of life. Out out brief candle!   Darkness is a reminder of evil, for it is in the darkness that people get lost, stumble and fall. It is in the darkness that power is misused, corruption reigns and evil is done. It is easy to imagine that in the end evil will triumph and the light will disappear. Situations change. Familiar landmarks -- like this magazine! -- disappear. There is the unrelenting pressure of a vanity fair society. The candle burns down and gives a thin wisp of smoke before going out.   But there are also the special party candles that keep bursting back into life. They are a much better picture of the light of the gospel! For though they have been numerous attempts down the centuries to extinguish the light, it has kept on bursting back into flame.   The light of Christ keeps on shining. New ways of sharing the good news come along. New believers are attracted to his light. Sleepy Christians are re-awakened. Fresh discoveries give even more confidence in the truth of the Bible.   The light keeps on shining in the darkness. It is a statement and a promise at the same time. It is isn't that once the light shone, but rather, that in the present it shines, and it will do so in the future as well. For the light comes from the one who is, as well as who was, and is also the one who is to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?  Bravely! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?  Bravely! said he; for I of late have been   Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13395]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8059]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12187]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the bulk of the liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's idea, God's desire; and it is He who appoints both the Judge and the Counsel for the Defense. It was He who inaugurated the priestly work, that men might receive His cleansing and turn to the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. God has provided for himself a Lamb. It is He who sends His Son to be our Elder Brother, and to incorporate us as adopted sons into the circle of His Fatherly love. So then it is the voice of His beloved Son which is most clearly heard by the Father in heaven. In that voice of intercession, all the voices of intercession are contained and heard. The Son is talking to the Father about us, and what He says is not Please but Yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31308</guid></item></channel></rss>