<?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 Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  God has brought us into this time; He, and not ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  God has brought us into this time; He, and not ourselves or some dark demon. If we are not fit to cope with that which He has prepared for us, we would have been utterly unfit for any condition that we imagine for ourselves. We are to live and wrestle in this time, and in no other. Let us humbly, tremblingly, manfully look at it, and we shall not wish that the sun could go back its ten degrees, or that we could go back with it. If easy times are departed, it is that the difficult times may make us more in earnest; that they may teach us not to depend on ourselves. If easy belief is impossible, it is that we may learn what belief is, and in whom it is to be placed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril firm and brave,   And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Every moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbor or not. We must get into action and obey -- we must behave like a neighbor to him. But perhaps this shocks you. Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that, there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. It is no use asking questions; for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13729]]></link><description><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  This is Paul's meaning. The state of slavery described in Romans 7 is a slavery to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  This is Paul's meaning. The state of slavery described in Romans 7 is a slavery to wrong desires; not merely to "flesh" in the abstract, as implying our material nature and environment, but to the "mind of the flesh" -- the lower nature and environment made a part of one's conscious self. What the Law could not do, God has done by the gift of the Spirit of Christ: He has given the victory to the higher self. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." (II Cor. 3:17) "The Law of the Spirit -- the law of a life in communion with Christ Jesus -- has made me free from the law of sin and death." (Rom. 8:2) Whereas life was a hopeless struggle, it now becomes a struggle in which the handicap is removed, and victory already secured in principle, because God has come into the life. The Law was external; it was the taskmaster set over against the troubled and fettered will of man. The Spirit is within, the mind of the Spirit is the mind of the man himself, and from within works out a growing perfection of life which satisfies the real longing of the soul. In the full sense freedom is still an object of hope; but the liberty already attained makes possible the building up of a Christian morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had good earnings out of Pfizer, good earnings out of Merrill Lynch , several dividend increases and eBay shares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37901]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had good earnings out of Pfizer, good earnings out of Merrill Lynch , several dividend increases and eBay shares that have performed better than expected. It's creating a transitory early rally as it's still too early to say whether it will hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled] The World Without Zionism ... To those who doubt, to those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled] The World Without Zionism ... To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift in time of need is most acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift in time of need is most acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21044]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55412]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47266]]></link><description><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased...It's awesome! We weren't expecting anything and we wanted to go out and be proud of the fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased...It's awesome! We weren't expecting anything and we wanted to go out and be proud of the fact we were part of the competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody out there. Learn from this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody out there. Learn from this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15779]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be affected, but it won't be insurmountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be affected, but it won't be insurmountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could do it all over again, I would. Not all of high school, just my senior year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could do it all over again, I would. Not all of high school, just my senior year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29971</guid></item></channel></rss>