<?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[Faith is spiritualized imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill!  All the spring is in her train,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill!  All the spring is in her train,   Led by shining ranks of rain;    Pit, pat, patter, clatter,     Sudden sun and clatter patter!      . . . .       All things ready with a will,        April's coming up the hill!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46050]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, to be in the way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31280]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a couple of possessions away. We just couldn't get that one basket. They hit their free throws at the end, which did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through a couple of minutes in that period where Oakland got even more aggressive; we just couldn't hang on to the ball and they were able to score off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thinpostpoems.com. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thinpostpoems.com.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   Christians love one another. They never fail to help widows; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   Christians love one another. They never fail to help widows; they save orphans from those who would hurt them. If a man has something, he gives freely to the man who has nothing. If they see a stranger, Christians take him home and are happy, as though he were a real brother. They don't consider themselves brothers in the usual sense, but brothers instead through the Spirit, in God. And if they hear that one of them is in jail, or persecuted for professing the name of their redeemer, they all give him what he needs -- if it is possible, they bail him out. If one of them is poor and there isn't enough food to go around, they fast several days to give him the food he needs... This is really a new kind of person. There is something divine in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5762]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing exactly what we wanted. I knew that we would be alright and the goals would come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days a year. We're finding all kinds of people who want a vacation home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safety net is tight and strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safety net is tight and strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, but the next day we both still loved the idea, ... We knew how much work it would be, but the more we thought about it, the more irresistible it seemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for apillow-I have still joy in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22742]]></link><description><![CDATA[With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for apillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This total and entire conversion of the inner man, this absolute doing away of the old and acceptance of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7957]]></link><description><![CDATA[This total and entire conversion of the inner man, this absolute doing away of the old and acceptance of the new life, being in its nature a real breach and not a formal one, necessarily involved a corresponding outward breach with the old form of life. Of this breach Baptism was the sacrament. In Baptism the change was effected and realized in fact. Baptism was not a mere formal external act, a symbol of a spiritual fact which was already complete without it. A Spiritual conversion which was not also a conversion of life was no conversion at all, but a delusion... With the heart man believes, with the mouth he confesses; but a mouth which does not confess disproves the existence of a heart that believes. The soul cannot be God's and the life not God's at the same time. The soul can not be recreated and the life remain unchanged. The spiritual breach is proved and realized and completed in the outward breach. Where there is no outward change, it is safe to deny an inward change. Faith without Baptism and all that Baptism involved was consequently no part of St. Paul's teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  Now the world should be able to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  Now the world should be able to see in the Church those marks [which show] that there is a substantial sociological healing possible in the present generation. It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this country, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this country, people did not know about Sudan, but we went to the White House, and now there is no more fighting in the southern part of Sudan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4489]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed in winning the support of their fellow citizens and converting them to the endorsement of policies that bring and preserve prosperity, the cause of mankind and civilization is hopeless. There is no other means to safeguard a propitious development of human affairs than to make the masses of inferior people adopt the ideas of the elite. This has to be achieved by convincing them. It cannot be accomplished by a despotic regime that instead of enlightening the masses beats them into submission. In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place of Islam in public life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34947</guid></item></channel></rss>