<?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[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our distributed support and security system was failing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our distributed support and security system was failing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21417]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ... What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ... What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,   Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that no child should suffer from a preventable or treatable disorder. With today's FDA approval, we are happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42036]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that no child should suffer from a preventable or treatable disorder. With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from short stature caused by severe Primary IGFD.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30171]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43373]]></link><description><![CDATA[In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10040]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have to know that it may move faster than they anticipate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do whatever you do intensely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do whatever you do intensely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to assume there will be more deals. That certainly would be a positive for credit quality in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38803]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to assume there will be more deals. That certainly would be a positive for credit quality in the equipment space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beggarly last doit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated federal law. He's a product of illegal drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3122]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65602]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54764]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the interrogations have come to an end. I don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the interrogations have come to an end. I don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  There is a covenant, ... and God is faithful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  There is a covenant, ... and God is faithful to His covenant. But the substance of that covenant is all pure mercy and grace. If men presume to claim for themselves, upon the basis of the covenant, some relationship with God other than that of the sinner needing God's grace, the covenant has been perverted. And when that has happened, God, in the sovereign freedom of His grace, destroy these pretensions, calls "No people" to be His people, breaks off natural branches and grafts in wild slips, filling them with the life that is His own life imparted to man. There is no law in His Kingdom save the law of pure grace. That is why they come from east and west to sit down with Abraham and Isaac, while the sons of the Kingdom are cast out; for the sons of the Kingdom have no place there unless they are willing to sit down with all whom the Lord of the feast shall call, and to receive His mercy in exactly the same way as the publicans and sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're deeply sorry for causing trouble to and disturbing our patients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With these qualities, we can achieve revival and bounce back stronger than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40868]]></link><description><![CDATA[With these qualities, we can achieve revival and bounce back stronger than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like it. I wouldn't want to do anything else. I love playing defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no night without stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no night without stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item></channel></rss>