<?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[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[ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn."Eat arsenic? Yes, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10203]]></link><description><![CDATA[ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn."Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he did speak up;"'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it in my teacup." --Joel Huck]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/423]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried. We are just starting the year and already we seem to see a dead whale every day. Something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried. We are just starting the year and already we seem to see a dead whale every day. Something is happening there and it needs to be investigated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27162]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to receive approval of the transaction in Idaho and appreciate the efforts of the commission and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to receive approval of the transaction in Idaho and appreciate the efforts of the commission and all parties to the proceeding working together to reach an agreement that is fair and equitable to all stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashley is a role for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ashley is a role for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can laugh together, you can work together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can laugh together, you can work together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For breathing in their faces, beat the ground,   For kissing of their feet; yet always bending    Towards their project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of wisdom is eternal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of wisdom is eternal thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of business (or state). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of business (or state).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54477]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23702]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is halfe spent before we know what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:  Making home sweeter and friends dearer:  Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory:  Robbing death of its sting:  Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33531]]></link><description><![CDATA[American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would he come back?. He's proven himself. You only test the waters if you're a borderline guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would he come back?. He's proven himself. You only test the waters if you're a borderline guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar,   In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464</guid></item></channel></rss>