<?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[What is history but a fable agreed upon? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is history but a fable agreed upon?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital in a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day shooting schedule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63596]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13399]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,  Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the times that try men's souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10711]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the times that try men's souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,  The things that might have been, and yet were not,   The fading twilight of joys departed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30391]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find it's fairly significant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29126]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39101]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21339]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite all of this, we continue to be cautiously optimistic on developing Asia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite all of this, we continue to be cautiously optimistic on developing Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42521]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 Concluding a short series on Romans 8:   [Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 Concluding a short series on Romans 8:   [Of vv. 32]   St. Paul had a lovely way of letting his letters break out into song every now and then. ([Dr. Arthur] Way's translation shows this.) One line in a song that comes in Romans 8 has been a great help to me. Way calls the song a "Hymn of Triumph to Jesus". This is the line: "How can He [the Father] but, in giving Him [Jesus], lavish on us all things -- all?" "Freely give" means to give lavishly. What do I need today? Strength? Peace? Patience? Heavenly joy? Industry? Good temper? Power to help others? Inward contentment? Courage? Whatever it be, my God will lavish it upon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7560</guid></item></channel></rss>