<?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[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have played well for the last six or seven games, apart from Bromley, and I am looking for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have played well for the last six or seven games, apart from Bromley, and I am looking for a reaction at Windsor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.  ... Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World  ... Also see comments on this book in Bookworms August 23, 2000 Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2894]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum  Typographia   Ars artium omnium    Conservatrix     Hic primum inventa      Circa annum mccccxl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud  Without our special wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud  Without our special wonder?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11448]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be great is to be misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14430]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be great is to be misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34326]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111]]></link><description><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good beginning makes a good end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good beginning makes a good end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8434]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man were a fitter repository for it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus  February 13, 1999  Faith is the source of energy in the struggle of life, but life still remains a battle which is continually renewed upon ever-new fronts. For every threatening abyss that is closed, another yawning gulf appears. The truth is -- and this is the conclusion of the whole matter -- the Kingdom of God is within us. But we must let our light shine before men in confident and untiring labor that they may see our good works and praise our Father in Heaven. The final ends of all humanity are hidden within His hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35190]]></link><description><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictionsprecede great actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictionsprecede great actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica  December 16, 2002   Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it... A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49695]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61896]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a foothold, ... Another thing is that Florida is not very species-diverse, so there are more options for invasion because there aren't many native species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17928</guid></item></channel></rss>