<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little -- at best, so poor and pinched and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little -- at best, so poor and pinched and stingey a hospitality and such meagre fare; for I have nothing worthy of Him to set before Him, only a kind of affection, real enough at times, but which, at others, can and does so easily forget; only a will, quite unreliable, deplorably unstable; only a faith that is the merest shadow of what His real friends mean when they speak about faith, I know. But, there was once a garret up under the roof, a poor, bare place enough. There was a table in it, and there were some benches, and a water-pot; a towel, and a basin in behind the door, but not much else -- a bare, unhomelike room. But the Lord Christ entered into it. And, from that moment, it became the holiest of all, where souls innumerable ever since have met the Lord God, in High glory, face to face. And, if you give Him entrance to that very ordinary heart of yours, it too He will transform and sanctify and touch with a splendour of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56891]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  In this Body of Christ, Paul sees "the ecclesia of God". Ecclesia is a Greek word with a splendid history. It was used in the old free commonwealths of Greece for the general assembly of all free citizens, by which their common life was governed. When political liberty went, the name still survived in the restricted municipal self-government which the Roman State allowed. It was taken over by the brotherhoods and guilds which in some measure superseded the old political associations. Among the Jews who spoke Greek, this word seemed the appropriate one to describe the commonwealth of Israel as ruled by God -- the historical Theocracy. Our translation of it is "Church". That word, however, has undergone such transformations of meaning that it is often doubtful in what sense it is being used. Perhaps for ecclesia we may use the word -- simpler, more general, and certainly nearest to its original meaning -- "commonwealth". [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough team,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is happy agony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is happy agony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at Iran's decision. It remains to be seen how Iran will respond. Iran has an opportunity now to come into line with requests made by the IAEA board; we hope it would choose that constructive path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat., Qui ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat., Qui ex errore imperitae multitudinis pendet, hic in magnis viris non est habendus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was love. I didn't think he should've gotten arrested for that. If was her dying wish, you got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37295]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was love. I didn't think he should've gotten arrested for that. If was her dying wish, you got to do what you gotta do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her joy in coaching these young women made them believe in themselves and depend on each other. Her guidance not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her joy in coaching these young women made them believe in themselves and depend on each other. Her guidance not only helped them excel here, it will help them become better, more compassionate leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47191]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43757]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think yesterday was the biggest part of it. But if you find out there are going to be some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think yesterday was the biggest part of it. But if you find out there are going to be some proceedings, some impeachment proceedings, that could have a major effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out-because that'swhat's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21607]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out-because that'swhat's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51437]]></link><description><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn:  Your friends are up and buckle on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn:  Your friends are up and buckle on their armor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8940</guid></item></channel></rss>