<?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[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy comes not from over-trust but from unbelief, either doubting that sin is present death, or else that holiness is life and that Jesus has a gift to bestow, not in heaven, but promptly, which is better to gain than all the world? Therefore salvation is linked with faith, which earns nothing but elicits all, like the touch that evokes electricity but which no man supposes to have made it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17297]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18144]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do with it. I just hope they have an opportunity to compete. They really deserve to. They have some great ballplayers in Cuba.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42042]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59437]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  To me there is a much more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  To me there is a much more frightening ignorance in our modern world than the "ignorance of the heathen". I am referring to the almost total ignorance of the content and implication of the Christian Faith shown by many "clever" people today. Frankly, I find it horrifying to discover that men who are experts in their own line -- in astronomy, genetics, or nuclear physics, for example -- have no adult knowledge of what the Church of Christ stands for, and a complete blank ignorance of what the Church is achieving today. It is the more horrifying because people who rightly respect the expert for his knowledge in his own field have no idea that he has not carefully examined and reluctantly discarded Christianity; but in all probability he has never studied it at all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb shit, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29448]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb shit,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27233]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark;  Out of the cloud a silence,   Then a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark;  Out of the cloud a silence,   Then a lark;    Out of the heart a rapture,     Then a pain;      Out of the dead, cold ashes,       Life again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20408]]></link><description><![CDATA[For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to play for us, with his talent and abilities, and he had worked hard to get in shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is good for you...in small doses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is good for you...in small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now hath my life across a stormy sea  Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all  Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall Of good and evil for eternity. Now know I well how that fond phantasy  Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall  Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed,  What are they when the double death is nigh?  The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest  My soul that turns to His great love on high,  Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot wish for that we know not. [Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot wish for that we know not. [Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18476]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo and it was just real fun from then on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is sometimes equated with credulity, but it can be so equated only when the profound mistake is made of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is sometimes equated with credulity, but it can be so equated only when the profound mistake is made of thinking of faith as primarily a matter of intellectual assent. As the New Testament uses the word, faith is trust, acceptance, commitment, vision. It is not a belief in this or that creed, it is a quality which lies rather in the realm of intuition than the intellect. Faith has indeed an element of true simplicity; it is one of the qualities -- perhaps the fundamental quality -- of the child-like spirit without which no man can enter the Kingdom of God.  ... Anonymous December 16, 1996  But lo' the snare is broke, the captive's freed,  By faith on all the hostile powers we tread, And crush through Jesus' strength the Serpent's head.  Jesus hath cast the cursed Accuser down,  Hath rooted up the tares by Satan sown:  All nature bows to His benign command, And two are one in His almighty hand. One in His hand, O may we still remain,  Fast bound with love's indissoluble chain;  (That adamant which time and death defies, That golden chain which draws us to the skies!)  His love the tie that binds us to His throne,  His love the bond that perfects us in one,  His only love constrains our hearts t' agree,  And gives the rivet of Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37609]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of life and see where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152</guid></item></channel></rss>