<?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 was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28765]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't seem to us like someone who was unstable, as some people have suggested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   The post of honor shall be mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a single species off the list into recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25243]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730]]></link><description><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME (This abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans is continued from yesterday)  That concludes the present stage of my argument; but before I can proceed to final deductions, I must return to a difficulty already raised (Rom. 3:1-4). If there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, does all the great past of Israel go for nothing? Do all the promises of Scripture go for nothing? First, let me say how bitterly I regret the exclusion of the Jewish nation as a body from the new life. I would surrender all my Christian privileges if I could find a way to bring them in. But we must recognize facts; and the first fact is that the nation as a whole never was able to claim the promises; from the beginning, there was a process of selection. Of the sons of Abraham, Isaac alone was called; of the sons of Isaac, Jacob only. If we ask why, there is no answer save that God is bound by no natural or historical necessity, but intervenes according to His will. To question that will is as absurd as for the pot to arraign the potter. Then again, while some members of the Hebrew race have always fallen out, always God has declared His purpose ultimately to include others, not members of the Hebrew race--and that is just what is now happening. Now, as I said, I desire nothing more earnestly than that the whole nation should be saved. But the fact is that they have deliberately rejected the chance that was offered them. There is nothing remote or abstruse about the Christian message. It is a very simple thing: acknowledge Jesus as Lord, and believe that He is alive; that is all. And they cannot say that they have never heard the message, for Christ has His witnesses everywhere. It looks, then, as if God had rejected His people, as punishment for their obstinacy. I do not believe it. God's promises cannot go for nothing. In the first place, there has always been, and there still is, a faithful remnant of the Jewish people. And in the second place, as for the main body, their present rejection of the message is only a means in God's Providence for its extension to the Gentiles. The old olive-tree of Israel stands yet; many of its branches have been lopped off, and new branches of wild olive have been engrafted in their place. But God can engraft the lopped branches on again, if it be His will; and I believe it is His will, and that in the end the whole nation will return to Him and inherit the promises. And if the failure of Israel has meant such blessing to the world, how much greater blessing will its ultimate salvation bring! God's purpose, as I said at the beginning (Rom. 1:16), is universal: He has permitted the whole of humanity, Jew and Gentile alike, to fall under sin, only in order that He may finally have mercy on the whole of humanity, Jew and Gentile alike. How profound and unsearchable are His plans! (Rom. 9:1-11:36)  So now I can take up again my main argument. If this is the way of God's dealing with us, what ought to be our response? Can we do less than offer our entire selves to God as a sacrifice of thanksgiving? How will that work out? In a life lived as by members of one single body. Let each perform his part faithfully. Let love rule all your relations one to another, and to those outside, even to your enemies. Do not regard the Emperor as outside the scope of love, but obey his laws and pay his taxes. Yes, and pay all debts to every one. Love is, in fact, the one comprehensive debt of man to man. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you have fulfilled the whole moral law. But be in earnest about things, for the better day is already dawning. (Rom. 12:1-13:14)  I hear you have differences among yourselves about Sabbath-keeping and vegetarianism. Take this matter, then, as an example of what I mean by the application of brotherly love to all conduct. Remember that the Sabbatarian and the anti-Sabbatarian, the vegetarian and the meat-eater, are alike servants of one Master. Give each other credit for the best motives. Do not think of yourself alone; think of your Christian brother, and try to put yourself in his place. If he seems to you a weak-minded, over-scrupulous individual, remember that in any case he is your brother, and that Christ died for him as well as for you, and reverence his conscience. If through your example he should do an act which is harmless in you but sin to him, you have injured his conscience. Is it worth while so to imperil a soul for the sake of your liberty in such external matters? If the other man is weak-minded, and you strong-minded, all the more reason why you should help to bear his burden. Remember, Christ did not please Himself. In a word, Sabbatarian and anti-Sabbatarian, Jew and Gentile, treat one another as Christ has treated you, and God be with you. (Rom. 14:1-15:13)  Well, friends, I hardly think you needed this long exhortation from me. You are intelligent Christians, and well able to give one another good advice. Still, I thought I might venture to remind you of a few points ; for after all, I do feel a measure of responsibility for you, as missionary to the Gentiles. I have now accomplished my mission as far West as the Adriatic. Now I am going to Jerusalem to hand over the relief fund we have raised in Greece. After that I hope to start work in the West, and I propose to set out for Spain and take Rome on my way. Pray for me, that my errand to Jerusalem may be successful, so that I may be free to visit you. (Rom. 15:14-33)  I wish to introduce to you our friend Phoebe. She renders admirable service to our congregation at Cenchrea. Do all you can for her; she deserves it.  Kind regards to Priscilla and Aquila, Epaenetus, Mary, and all friends in Rome.   (P.S.--Beware of folk who make mischief. Be wise; be gentle; and all good be with you.)  Timothy, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, and all friends at Corinth send kind regards. (So do I--Tertius, amanuensis!)  Glory be to God!  With all good wishes,  Your brother,  PAUL, Missionary of Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at your board,   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Church] sees that human life must be lived in the quite fearless recognition of this insecurity of relationship between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6747]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Church] sees that human life must be lived in the quite fearless recognition of this insecurity of relationship between one man and another. Now, once again may I ask you the question, Is the Church cruel when she points this out, and demands that men should see it and take account of it in all the arrangements of this life? Surely the cruelty lies with those who talk glibly about the brotherhood of man, and superficially about peace, and romantically about marriage, as though the disturbances in Church and state and family were introduced into human life by a few evil-minded men. This is the real cruelty. How will you face up later to your married life, to your administration of affairs, to your life in the Church, in fact to any real part of your lives, if you are taught to think that your neighbour will or ought to agree with you in all points, will accept your solutions of his problems, will in fact be a reflection of your image? Once we get this stuff and nonsense into our heads, we shall never be able to live with anyone or with any group of men. We shall sulk when we are crossed, or run away from the Other -- for Other they are. We shall certainly remove ourselves from the Church when we find it full of friction and yet proclaiming the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives,  Meets the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61797]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives,  Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;   Till one calls him, who varies not his call,    But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,     Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;      A freedom far less welcome than this chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely. They believe in the power of the spirit, in the goodness which is at the heart of things, in the triumph which is in store for the great moral ideals of the race. But this great faith only too often leads to an optimism which is sadly and fatally at variance with actual results. It is the realist and not the idealist who is generally justified by events. We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle. . . . Paris proved this terrible truth once more. It was not Wilson who failed there, but humanity itself. It was not the statesmen that failed, so much as the spirit of the peoples behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;  Fate never wounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;  Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,   Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to make a decision now. I just want to finish out the season, and then I will be ready to make a decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, Ah! Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle. Forbear, said the Miller to him, harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1914</guid></item></channel></rss>