<?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[It doesn't mean the system is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40892]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't mean the system is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   While many Americans are still firmly committed to the traditional, supernatural conceptions of a personal God, a Divine Savior, and the promise of eternal life, the trend is away from these convictions. The fact is that a demythologized modernism is overwhelming the traditional Christ-centered, mystical faith. For the modern skeptics are not the apostates, village atheists, or political revolutionaries of old. The leaders of today's challenge to traditional beliefs are principally theologians -- those in whose care the church entrusts its sacred teachings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-centered way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33224]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-centered way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting elementary school students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.   ... Friedrich von Hügel August 9, 2000 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   When evangelicals call the Bible "inerrant", part at least of their meaning is this: that, in exegesis and exposition of Scripture and in building up our biblical theology from the fruits of our Bible study, we may not (1) deny, disregard, or arbitrarily relativize, anything that the biblical writers teach, nor (2) discount any of the practical implications for worship and service that their teaching carries, nor (3) cut the knot of any problem of Bible harmony, factual or theological, by allowing ourselves to assume that the inspired writers were not necessarily consistent either with themselves or with each other. It is because the word "inerrant" makes these methodological points about handling the Bible, ruling out in advance the use of mental procedures that can only lead to reduced and distorted versions of Christianity, that it is so valuable and, I think, so much valued by those who embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thingwell, you're needed by someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thingwell, you're needed by someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38303]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2785]]></link><description><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size,   Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52731]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18725]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37124]]></link><description><![CDATA[After five up weeks, it's ok to have a week like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38936]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun    Closing his benediction,     Sinks, and the darkening air      Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--       Night with train of stars        And her great gift of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought to clean his tongue and wash the boots of David Beckham as they are so wet tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18187]]></link><description><![CDATA[True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger breeds best on too much confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger breeds best on too much confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the deepening shadows of death's night, Men see an open door ... beyond it, light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item></channel></rss>