<?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[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22305]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might be donated to charity or it might be held at auction. Or if it's something in bad condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might be donated to charity or it might be held at auction. Or if it's something in bad condition, then it would just be disposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who lies for you will lie against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who lies for you will lie against you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35054]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price. Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41535]]></link><description><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking parts of the Day of Atonement is that of the scapegoat. The high priest placed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6372]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking parts of the Day of Atonement is that of the scapegoat. The high priest placed both his hands on the head of a goat and confessed all the sins of the nation. Then the goat carrying the sins of the people is sent off into the wilderness. But it is not just a piece of history!   There is in the modern world a quest for scapegoats though with one enormous difference. Whenever there is an accident or a tragedy, there is a search for someone to blame. Often all the modern means of communication join in; accusations, resignations, demands for compensation and the rest. If a guilty person is found, then an orgy of condemnation and vilification. Rarely a sense of, there but for the grace of God go I. Instead of dealing gently with one another's failure because of our own vulnerability to criticism, there is the presumption that we are in a fit condition to judge and to condemn.   The enormous difference? The original scapegoat followed a confession of the sins of the people. There was no blaming of someone else, but an admission of guilt and a quest for the forgiveness of God. The goat wasn't hated, but was a dramatic picture of the carrying away sins. It was the very opposite of a selfrighteous victimisation of someone else.   Ever since 200 A.D., Christians have seen the scapegoat as a picture of Jesus. As it was led out to die in the wilderness bearing the sins of the people, so he was crucified outside Jerusalem for our sins. We are to be both forgiven and forgiving people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62313]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air,   Sole, or responsive each to other's note,    Singing their great Creator?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12831]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6517]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal. 5:5) everywhere and at all times. By the knowledge of Jesus Christ all human waiting is guaranteed, authorized and established; for He makes it known that it is not men who wait, but God -- in His faithfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49343]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26678]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found the Evangelical faith in which I had been reared confirmed and deepened. Increasingly I rejoiced in the Gospel -- the amazing Good News -- that the Creator of what to us human beings is this bewildering and unimaginably vast universe, so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Everlasting life, I came to see, is not just continued existence, but a growing knowledge -- not merely intellectual but wondering through trust, love, and fellowship -- of Him who alone is truly God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49879</guid></item></channel></rss>