<?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[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white butterfly   Dancing before the fitful gale,    Far out at sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jawani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As the veil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jawani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As the veil of the temple was, at the death of the Saviour, rent asunder, in the same way our communion with the Crucified puts aside all the curtains separating us artificially from the rest of the world, and removes all sense of privilege and exclusiveness. It is this explanation of justification by faith only which leads us to the true depth of what the Gospel has contributed to this world. To live by grace and to die by grace, to live in forgiveness every day, every hour and every moment, means to identify oneself with those who do not share our faith, and to realize all the debts we owe them. Let us not be afraid that this will reduce the Gospel to relativism. Its depth is in proportion to its breadth. The deeper it is, the broader and fuller it becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19790]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58180]]></link><description><![CDATA[To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy mind has an easy breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65716]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy mind has an easy breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48054]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3970]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47415]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, so she didn't want to alienate me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the essential mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the essential mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very encouraged by the positive results from this study in patients with HSPC and are pleased to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very encouraged by the positive results from this study in patients with HSPC and are pleased to have our results meet the scientific standards for presentation at this important congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9759]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240   Exclusive concentration on the criterion of historicity obscures the intent, meaning, and message of the narrative which, after all, are its enduring qualities. If Abraham's migration can no longer be explained as part of a larger Amorite migratory stream from east to west, it should be noted that what has fallen by the wayside is a scholarly hypothesis, not the Biblical text. Genesis itself presents the movement from Haran to Canaan as an individual, unique act undertaken in response to a divine call -- an event, not an incident -- that inaugurates a new and decisive stage in God's plan of history. The factuality or otherwise of this Biblical evaluation lies beyond the scope of scholarly research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2768]]></link><description><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease with grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43831]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here to grow, to grow up in every way unto the full stature of a man newborn in Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   Neglects or violates his trust is more    A brigand than the robber-chief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. - Borsi, A Soldier's Confidences with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828]]></link><description><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35349]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48563</guid></item></channel></rss>