<?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[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7754]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a tragic death, and so long as his ideas of Christianity are bounded by what he calls the Sermon on the Mount (which he has almost certainly not read in its entirety since he became grown-up), then the living truth never has a chance to touch him. This is plainly what has happened to many otherwise intelligent people. Over the years I have had hundreds of conversations with people, many of them of higher intellectual calibre than my own, who quite obviously had no idea of what Christianity is really about. I was in no case trying to catch them out: I was simply and gently trying to find out what they knew about the New Testament. My conclusion was that they knew virtually nothing. This I find pathetic and somewhat horrifying. It means that the most important Event in human history is politely and quietly bypassed. For it is not as though the evidence had been examined and found unconvincing: it had simply never been examined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I was the luckiest guy in the world to be part of this show, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I was the luckiest guy in the world to be part of this show,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call,  And the blackbird plays but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call,  And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,   But I love him best of all.    For his song is all the joy of life,     And we in the mad spring weather,      We two have listened till he sang       Our hearts and lips together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12884]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or even, in a more modern way of speech, a creative moral principle in itself. Paul does not, in fact, speak (when he is using the language strictly) of "justification by faith", but of "justification by grace through faith," or "on the grounds of faith." This is not mere verbal subtlety. It means that the "righteousness of God" becomes ours, not by the assertion of the individual will as such, but by the willingness to let God work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17460]]></link><description><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third -- the greatest wonder of all -- to find myself there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not thirsted for Thee: And now cold billows of death surround me, Buffeting billows of death astound me,  Wilt Thou look upon, wilt Thou see  Thy perishing me?" "Yea, I have sought thee, yea, I have found thee,  Yea, I have thirsted for thee, Yea, long ago with love's bands I bound thee: Now the Everlasting Arms surround thee,  Through death's darkness I look and see  And clasp thee to Me.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56721]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory   Our stout old Commodores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46472]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46472</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/66134]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and the world. When they know you're right ... you're not going to find us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God, seeing both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God, seeing both Him and ourselves in the light of His infinite truth, and moves us to ask Him for the mercy, the spiritual strength, the material help, that we all need. The man whose prayer is so pure that he never asks God for anything does not know who God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he does not know his own need of God. All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute dependence on the Lord of life and death. It is, therefore, a deep and vital contact with Him whom we know not only as Lord but as Father. It is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a high perfection by this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is to suggest that those people who buy things from it, or gamble on its terms, are members of a "club", a "circle". Study the advertisements in any popular magazine: people are "invited to apply for membership"; "members will receive a catalogue"; they are even offered "rules", which they gladly accept because the need for authority lies heavily upon them; they then receive a card admitting them to the circle, with the "President's signature" printed on it. In the need for belonging, the acknowledgement of dependence, may lie the greatest opportunity of the Christian evangelist. It is not unlike the conditions under which the early Church worked. In the later Roman Empire, crumbling under its own size, its communications and resources stretched to the utmost, the mystery-religions came into their own. Rites of initiation, the sharing of secret knowledge, offered to people of all classes an escape from the perplexities of life, a retreat into a closed circle of the elect where they might feel that their transformed personalities had some significance. Who can know how many weary souls there were who strayed into the Church through rumours of a secret rite of purification, of a shared meal that conferred wisdom, and who remained to comprehend the fullness of the Godhead, a belonging greater than they had ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32932]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near 4.38%, we are not excited about further inversion just yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a conceptual point of view it makes sense, given that the companies have worked together in the past. Dean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34053]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a conceptual point of view it makes sense, given that the companies have worked together in the past. Dean seems to like big competitive metro markets. Gannett has an aversion to those, so it might make sense for the two to combine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41229]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was great to have B.J. back. We certainly hope we can have him back at full strength by tournament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was great to have B.J. back. We certainly hope we can have him back at full strength by tournament time. If so, I really like our chances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38582]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maintains great leverage and block protection. He's got a nose for the ball and just makes plays out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. -Georgia O'Keeffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55538]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34803]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60263]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31359</guid></item></channel></rss>