<?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 Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40228]]></link><description><![CDATA[An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61187]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8678]]></link><description><![CDATA[When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there  Only by his permission. Then beware,   That leads from earth to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[accomplished what we did this quarter in large part because of our no-late-fees program, not in spite of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38628]]></link><description><![CDATA[accomplished what we did this quarter in large part because of our no-late-fees program, not in spite of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25496]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8744]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   But the word 'temple' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   But the word 'temple' took on a deeper significance when Jesus referred to His own body as 'this temple.' He thus definitely declared Himself to be the personal embodiment of the living God. Later the Apostle Paul applied this term to Christians... "Ye are God's building... Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" And again, "What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?" Paul taught that it is God's people who constitute the true church of God, and wherever they have fellowship in the Gospel, God is there. Moreover, he emphasized that as members of this true church it is our privilege to be "laborers together with God." It is our privilege to build upon the one foundation, Jesus Christ, with gold, silver, precious stones -- the kind of Christian service which abides for recognition at the judgment seat of Christ. Again, it is our responsibility to be consecrated for holy living and faithful service, "for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; so we must shun evil, and, since we have been bought with a price, we must glorify God in body and spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the disarray in the Knesset, whatever's going on there, he's going to make a deal in the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the disarray in the Knesset, whatever's going on there, he's going to make a deal in the name of the people of Israel, and he's going to sell it to the people of Israel, and ultimately, because the people in the Knesset are politicians, they will have to back him up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities of earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say   "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63405]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</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[Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's tradition hold that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's tradition hold that there must of necessity be a specialized vocabulary, just as there is in any other specialized form of human activity, whether it is music, architecture, or electronic engineering. To me, at least, this is a thoroughly unsound argument, for Christ did not come into the world to bring men "specialized activity," but life, fuller and more satisfying than it had been ever before. If the churches have made Christianity appear to be some kind of specialized spiritual performance so much the worse for them. The real purpose of Christ, the real relevance of the Gospel, is surely to enable men to live together as sons of God. Human beings, like children, love to have secrets, love to be "in the know." But the Christian religion was never meant to be a secret recipe for living, held by a few. It is Good News for all mankind and, because it is that, the more clearly and intelligibly it can be presented, the more faithfully it is following its Master's purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   We know that one school of psychology already regards religion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   We know that one school of psychology already regards religion as a neurosis. When this particular neurosis becomes inconvenient to the government, what is to hinder the government from proceeding to 'cure' It? Such 'cure' will , of course, be compulsory; but under the humanitarian theory it will not be called by the shocking name of Persecution. No one will blame us for being Christians, no one will hate us, no one revile us. The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact {compulsory}, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like 'right' and 'wrong' , or 'freedom' and 'slavery' are never heard. And thus when the command is given, every prominent Christian in the land may vanish overnight into Institutions for the Treatment of the Ideologically Unsound, and it will rest with the expert gaolers to when (if ever) they are to emerge. But it will not be persecution. Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident, the intention was purely therapeutic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the grass at home. There's more in life than golf. I enjoy the game but I don't know if I could do it every day. If I go practice, I practice for an hour. The guys out here practice for six hours. I couldn't do that. I've never had the length, I'm not that strong of a guy. I hit it 250, 260, I hit it very straight and I'm not a bad putter. You have to do this all the time to get the nerves. I don't know if I have the nerves for the next three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. Before the match, we talked about how it was important to play each shot as if the championship depended on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;  But like of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8646]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;  But like of each thing that in season grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25251]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25251</guid></item></channel></rss>