<?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[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64601]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church was forgotten, and the Church, instead of obeying the commandment of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations (in fact, that it was chiefly a missionary association), neglected this great and important calling... It is astonishing how a commandment so simple and distinct, and how a duty which you would have imagined would be eagerly greeted by the impulse of gratitude, of affection, and of compassion, was forgotten for so long a time, in the churches of the Reformation especially. Now we are accustomed to hear of mission work among the heathen nations, and to find that a great multitude of people are interested in it, and regard it with respect; but it was only at the commencement of the last century, and with great difficulty, [that] the attention of the Church was roused to this important duty; and even in the... Church of Scotland there were a number of ministers who thought that the state of heathenism was so utterly corrupt, and that there was so much to be done in our own country, that it was altogether a Utopian project to think of converting the idolaters, and that it was not our imperative duty to trouble ourselves with their wretched condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't look like there will be any disruption in the near term. Iran relies on the money the oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't look like there will be any disruption in the near term. Iran relies on the money the oil brings in so they wouldn't be able to cut supplies for long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right;  But if to-morrow never came,   No end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right;  But if to-morrow never came,   No end were of "to-night."    The fact is this, time flies so fast,     That e'er we've time to say      "To-morrow's come," presto! behold!       "To-morrow" proves "To-day."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;   He, only in a general honest thought    And common good to all, made one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27937]]></link><description><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four times, what more do you need?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this role, and finding someone to fit the character of Jeffrey was a challenge, if not a miracle. But when miracles happen, you don't question them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of the game. You have to lay it on the line and get it done and those who make the plays win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is fostered by concealment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51777]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is fostered by concealment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59667]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JBoss - Its free, and it doesn't suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23142]]></link><description><![CDATA[JBoss - Its free, and it doesn't suck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans and Yoshio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel a whole lot better. I got this off of my chest and I'm just trying to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel a whole lot better. I got this off of my chest and I'm just trying to move forward right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship between us and India is not affected with regard to any other country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19023]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62298</guid></item></channel></rss>