<?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[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd certainly look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd certainly look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs   On chaliced flowers that lies;    And winking Mary-buds begin     To ope their golden eyes.      With every thing that pretty is,       My lady sweet, arise,        Arise, arise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42050]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys,   And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways:    Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean,     For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The so-called human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The so-called human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with theidea of a cathedral in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel is all promises on God's part, and that our part is only to believe them and to rely upon God for the performance of them, and to be very confident that He will make them good, though we do nothing else but only believe that He will do so. That the Christian religion is only a declaration of God's goodwill to us, without any expectation of duty from us -- this is an error which one could hardly think could ever enter into any who have the liberty to read the Bible and attend to what they read and find there. The three great promises of the gospel are all very expressly contained in our Saviour's first sermon upon the mount. There we find the promise of blessedness often repeated but never absolutely made, but upon certain conditions, plainly required on our part, as repentance, righteousness, humility, mercy, peaceableness, meekness, patience. Forgiveness of sins is likewise promised, but only to those who make a penitent acknowledgement of them and ask forgiveness for them., and are ready to grant that forgiveness to others which they beg of God for themselves. The gift of God's Holy Spirit is likewise promised, but it is upon condition of our earnest and importunate prayer to God. The gospel is everywhere full of precepts enjoining duty and obedience upon our part, as well as of promises on God's part, assuring blessings to us -- nay, full of terrible threatenings also if we disobey the precepts of the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, they still weren't eating them. It seemed like such a waste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48908]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travail, coming towards him, who was a hundred years of age; he received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit down; but observing that the old man ate and prayed not, nor begged a blessing on his meat, he asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven. The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he threw the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was. He replied, "I thrust him away, because he did not worship thee." God answered him, "I have suffered him these hundred years, though he dishonoured me; and wouldst thou not endure him one night?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken pride half seriously enough. But the Devil has. The Devil knows that as long as he can control human pride it does not matter how many prayer meetings, how many services, how much devotion goes on -- he can still wrack any group of Christians, sooner or later, and frustrate God's purpose for them, and for the world.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn August 11, 1999 Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   Never... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. This thought should keep us humble. We are sinners, but we do not know how great. He alone knows who died for our sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce this partnership and to align the event with such a favorable brand as Ford. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce this partnership and to align the event with such a favorable brand as Ford. The synergies with the communities are already very strong, and we look forward to unveiling our promotional programs that will excite people about the Tour and the Ford brand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item></channel></rss>