<?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[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood aloof from the world He had made, and let law take its course. He did not here and now deal with sinful men. Paul lets us see how new and wonderful was the experience when God "flashed on his heart" in personal dealing with him. He had not suspected that God was like that. His theological studies had told him that God was loving and merciful; but he had thought this love and mercy were expressed once and for all in the arrangements He had made for Israel's blessedness... It was a new thing to be assured by an inward experience admitting of no further question that God loved him, and that the eternal mercy was a Father's free forgiveness of His erring child. This was the experience that Christ had brought him: he had seen the splendour of God's own love in the face of "the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind,  And therefore cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind,  And therefore cast into these noble moulds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled;  Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54335]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled;  Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,   And with the Tweed had travelled;    And when we came to Clovenford,     Then said "my winsome marrow,"      "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,       And see the braes of Yarrow."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God's side, with His love encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn more of the exceeding beauty of Love: that is worth living for, and surely worth dying to this misery-making self for. [Continued tomorrow]  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 5, 1998  And let us be grateful beyond words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own, is; how horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 6, 1998  Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Prayer is the expression of a good desire. The human heart is full of restless desires, and the prayers of men consist for the most part of the unsifted petitions which are urged by their varying passions. To desire what is right, and to desire it consistently, and passionately, is the first condition of true living; the desires can be corrected only by truth, the mind must apprehend God, and then it will say, "There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the remedy for every misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We just didn't come to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61247]]></link><description><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60123]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62100]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;  Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;  Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a real good old-fashioned panic of the kind we haven't seen in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9851]]></link><description><![CDATA[World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,— I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item></channel></rss>