<?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[Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it... Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can nnot be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow -- in which no work can be done, any more than in yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24201]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my own personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  November 13, 2001 Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   Repentance is in every view so desirable, so necessary, so suited to honor God, that I seek that above all. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. I long to be in my proper place, my hand on my mouth, and my mouth in the dust... I feel this to be safe ground. Here I cannot err... I am sure that whatever God may despise... He will not despise the broken and contrite heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Christian ethic of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Christian ethic of justice and of the duty to help and protect the weak, upon the Christian valuation of man as of spiritual dignity and worth, as made for freedom, as a potential child of God. These principles have no validity unless the Christian view of man be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er   The lofty palace then his own no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never swap horses crossing a stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never swap horses crossing a stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a healthy two-way trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a healthy two-way trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls   Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;    Pillars and doors all were of brass;     Windows of latten were set with glass;      It was so rich in many wise,       That it was like a paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51648]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that provide this access.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16876]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. How are you?" I would send them, but I know that it's just not enough. My words are cold and flat, and you deserve more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It made me happy but sad at the same time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It made me happy but sad at the same time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59136]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward leaps,   Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.    Parch not your life with dry despair;     The stream of hope flow everywhere--      So under every sky and star,       Just drop your bucket where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what we are looking for from everyone. Constant improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42128]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what we are looking for from everyone. Constant improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good Friday because only an extremely good God could do a thing like that. All religions attempt to bridge the gulf between the terrific purity of God and the sinfulness of man, but Christianity believes that God built that bridge Himself. This particular Friday commemorates His deliberate action in allowing Himself to be caught up in the sin-suffering-death mechanism which haunts mankind. He didn't let it end there, for He went on, right through death. But the men who believe in Him can't forget the kind of Person such an act reveals. That's why they call it Good Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for those who respond to his call with upright life, because in those who are directed to the good by his Spirit he recognizes the only genuine insignia of his children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12896</guid></item></channel></rss>