<?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[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church was forgotten, and the Church, instead of obeying the commandment of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations (in fact, that it was chiefly a missionary association), neglected this great and important calling... It is astonishing how a commandment so simple and distinct, and how a duty which you would have imagined would be eagerly greeted by the impulse of gratitude, of affection, and of compassion, was forgotten for so long a time, in the churches of the Reformation especially. Now we are accustomed to hear of mission work among the heathen nations, and to find that a great multitude of people are interested in it, and regard it with respect; but it was only at the commencement of the last century, and with great difficulty, [that] the attention of the Church was roused to this important duty; and even in the... Church of Scotland there were a number of ministers who thought that the state of heathenism was so utterly corrupt, and that there was so much to be done in our own country, that it was altogether a Utopian project to think of converting the idolaters, and that it was not our imperative duty to trouble ourselves with their wretched condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. In the second half, our conditioning allowed us to keep our intensity up and play at a pace that helped us extend the lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're blessed if you have the strength to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63456]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're blessed if you have the strength to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who have nothing have little to fear,   Nothing to lose or to gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's to look after the keepers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've tested our products in Alaska, the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys and after 30 years they still look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33315]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've tested our products in Alaska, the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys and after 30 years they still look great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/79]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/79</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126]]></link><description><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23231]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me that after 12 years of lawlessness and disorder that we would be able to hold an ideal democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me that after 12 years of lawlessness and disorder that we would be able to hold an ideal democratic election in just a year or two. What's important is that we are moving toward democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot see the mountain near ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot see the mountain near]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not take drugs. I am drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not take drugs. I am drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50909]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510</guid></item></channel></rss>