<?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[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27566]]></link><description><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40827]]></link><description><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40827</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><item><title><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Zionists should prepare ... bags to collect the remains of their soldiers and settlers because we are going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Zionists should prepare ... bags to collect the remains of their soldiers and settlers because we are going to hit in the depths of the entity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every situation-nay, every moment-is of infinite worth; for it is therepresentative of a whole eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every situation-nay, every moment-is of infinite worth; for it is therepresentative of a whole eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632]]></link><description><![CDATA[hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our purpose is to offer information to those who want it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our purpose is to offer information to those who want it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25206]]></link><description><![CDATA[An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54034]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, they should get better every time they take the mat and learn something. It's important that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30967]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, they should get better every time they take the mat and learn something. It's important that we pull together when it really matters at the conference tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3042]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If you go to the left you are sure to be right,   If you go to the right you are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19060]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45618]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25221]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Following the way of Jesus Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Following the way of Jesus Christ and doing all we can for His cause and for our fellow men expresses something of our worship in action. But how to give Him a present to express our love is a bit of a problem. How can you give God anything when He owns everything? But does He? How about that power to choose, that precious free will that He has given to every living personality and which He so greatly respects? That is the only present we can give -- our selves, with all our powers of spirit, mind, and body, willingly, freely given because we love Him. That is the best and highest worship that you and I can offer, and I am sure that it is this above all that God most highly appreciates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always be little and sweet,   And a sting should be felt in its tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed on a better state. Prosperity has power to intoxicate the imagination, to fix the mind upon the present scene, to produce confidence and elation, and to make him who enjoys affluence and honors forget the hand by which they were bestowed. It is seldom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility, or taught to know how little all our acquisitions can conduce to safety or quiet, and how justly we may inscribe to the superintendence of a higher power those blessings which in the wantonness of success we considered as the attainments of our policy and courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9551]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9551</guid></item></channel></rss>