<?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[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,   And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;    Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,     Which spongy April at thy hest betrims      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,       Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,        Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;         And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,          Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,           Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,            Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,             Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,              To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.               Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10953</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[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose principle of differentiation is to be sought in their conformity to the order of social classes and castes. It would not be true to affirm that the denominations are not religious groups with religious purposes; but it is true that they represent the accommodation of religion to the caste system. They are emblems, therefore, of the victory of the world over the church, of the secularization of Christianity, of the church's sanction of that divisiveness which the church's gospel condemns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.  If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--  Look to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal   Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren    Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars into that one race,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.rnZig Ziglar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;  The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,   And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55877]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another must place the truth of the case in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25680]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just nice to get out and play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30839]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just nice to get out and play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That gave us a little breathing room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31510]]></link><description><![CDATA[That gave us a little breathing room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless there is some setback.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40507]]></link><description><![CDATA[And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those incemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21785</guid></item></channel></rss>