<?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[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,   And think it kindness to his majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039]]></link><description><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the deepening shadows of death's night, Men see an open door ... beyond it, light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23174]]></link><description><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But agony unmix'd, incessant gall,    Corroding every thought, and blasting all     Love's paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34866]]></link><description><![CDATA[His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. With him, he's either good or bad, and today he was able to address his problem. Before, if he got a bad hitter or two, things got out of hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the devout ones took the stance of spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the devout ones took the stance of spectator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing to put all the pieces together in a perspective relative to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to face them in court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31009]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to face them in court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29857]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By doing nothing we learne to do ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49168]]></link><description><![CDATA[By doing nothing we learne to do ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25548]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an excellent choice ... for an organization that does extremely good work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an excellent choice ... for an organization that does extremely good work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66058]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40334]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment that has increased productivity. They're making employment act differently in this upturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4183]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coveteous spends more then the liberall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was wrong that she wasn't taking him right away. We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was wrong that she wasn't taking him right away. We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of characterÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ must be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of characterÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ must be earned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion became a matter of conduct, of good deeds, of works, with only a vague background of faith. It became highly functional, highly pragmatic; it became a guarantee of success, moral and material. "The proper study of mankind is man," was the evasion by which many American divines escaped the necessity for thought about God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men, so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men, so little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural Preservation Inc. was formed then and has a single purpose of maintaining the mural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item></channel></rss>