<?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[A basic principle in the interpretation of the Bible is that one must first ask what a given Scripture was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7629]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic principle in the interpretation of the Bible is that one must first ask what a given Scripture was intended to mean to the people for whom it was originally written; only then is the interpreter free to ask what meaning it has for Christians today. Failure to ask this primary question and to investigate the historical setting of Scripture have prevented many Christians from coming to a correct understanding of some parts of the Bible. Nowhere is this more true than in respect to the last book in the Bible. Here, there has been a singular lack of appreciation for the historical background of the book; the book has been interpreted as if it were primarily written for the day in which the expositor lives (which is usually thought to be the end time), rather than in terms of what it meant to the first-century Christians of the Roman province of Asia for whom it was originally written. This has resulted in all sorts of grotesque and fantastic conclusions of which the author of the Revelation and its early recipients never would have dreamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. -Sheila Graham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign of age is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature's minstrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature's minstrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Access to video streaming rights with Universal underscores our goal as a company to provide quality, in-home entertainment, in whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Access to video streaming rights with Universal underscores our goal as a company to provide quality, in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have to go out of state, the cost of making that trip will be prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existence. He is the Lord of all kinds of beings--spiritual being, natural being, physical being. Therefore, when we rightly worship Him we encompass all being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to the other. He always seems to be in good position. He's a guy who would rather pass than shoot. He's done exactly what I thought he would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40338]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you can paper over a lot of things. When you get under some strain, these things show up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4481]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15931]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which He says shall be full, but to have fellowship with Him? He had perfect joy on our account, when He rejoiced in foreknowing and predestinating us; but that joy was not in us, because we did not then exist; it began to be in us, when He called us. And this joy we rightly call our own, this joy wherewith we shall be blessed; which is begun in the faith of them who are born again, and shall be fulfilled in the reward of them who rise again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48146]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58327]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near   Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,    Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry     Amid thy cloud-built streets.   - Rev. Frederick William Faber,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50892]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the spiritual things of the Gospel; but a profluency of speech, venting itself on all occasions and on no occasions, making men open their mouths wide when indeed they should shut them and open their ears, and to pour out all that they know and ... what they do not know, making them angry if they are not heard and impatient if they are contradicted, is an unconquerable fortification against all true spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3169]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get mad, then get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get mad, then get over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38877</guid></item></channel></rss>