<?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[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50089]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in visits   Like those of angels, short and far between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12962]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  It is easy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  It is easy to throw angels and demons and the cosmic character and relevance of Christ's work upon the scrap heap of ancient superstition and mythology, and to consider them but a manner of speech that is utterly irrelevant for our space age. But if we should feel entitled to throw out one part of the witness of Ephesians to Christ, why not the rest of it also: for instance, Christ's Lordship over the church and in the heart? It is unfair and scarcely honest to consider the Bible or parts of it as a cake from which we can pick out merely the raisins we happen to like. Speaking the truth in love and witnessing to the biblical Christ may imply the necessity to speak also of some very strange things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49086]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51129]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday through Thursday so the playing conditions should be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64535]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his dedication to the program, and he really enjoys working with the boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66675]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in Tennyson the ugliness of hypocrisy, in George Eliot the supremacy of duty, in Dickens the divinity of kindness, and in Ruskin the dignity of service. Irving teaches me the lesson of cheerfulness, Hawthorne shows me the hatefulness of sin, Longfellow gives me the soft, tranquil music of hope. Lowell makes us feel that we must give ourselves to our fellow men. Whittier sings to me of divine Fatherhood and human brotherhood. These are Christian lessons: who inspired them? Who put it into the heart of Martin Luther to nail those theses on the church door of Wittenberg? Who stirred and fired the soul of Savonarola? Who thrilled and electrified the soul of John Wesley? Jesus Christ is back of these all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37733]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always heard of the Fringe and of the quality of the shows, and I always wanted to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always heard of the Fringe and of the quality of the shows, and I always wanted to be a part of it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48786]]></link><description><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55014]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,  The problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9156]]></link><description><![CDATA[And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,  The problem still for us and all of human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according to Prof. [William] Ramsay's calculation, he had laboured for only five months. Thus his stay had not been long enough for him to do more than teach the fundamental truths which seemed to him of the first importance: all the circumstances of his visit were still fresh in his memory and he was recalling to the minds of his readers what he had taught them by word of mouth. Now in that Epistle we get an extraordinarily clear and coherent account of simple mission-preaching not only implied but definitely expressed. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5736]]></link><description><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   My senses with the sight of her I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47693</guid></item></channel></rss>