<?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[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1050]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51920]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps   Out of my weakness and my melancholy,    As he is very potent with such spirits,     Abuses me to damn me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,  And how he keeps  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,  And how he keeps   Gloating upon a sheep's    Or bullock's personals, as if his own;     How he admires his halves      And quarters--and his calves,       As if in truth upon his own legs grown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travail, coming towards him, who was a hundred years of age; he received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit down; but observing that the old man ate and prayed not, nor begged a blessing on his meat, he asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven. The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he threw the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was. He replied, "I thrust him away, because he did not worship thee." God answered him, "I have suffered him these hundred years, though he dishonoured me; and wouldst thou not endure him one night?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61874]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace combine   To stamp the marriage-bond divine?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kinds of problems tend to cool investors' buying sentiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39856]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kinds of problems tend to cool investors' buying sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39485]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neglected his task for the flowers on the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50670]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neglected his task for the flowers on the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21163]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that Muslims around the world must follow the example of Prophet Muhammad, who was compassionate and man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that Muslims around the world must follow the example of Prophet Muhammad, who was compassionate and man of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a much better picture of species distribution throughout the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18227]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed by March 12. It involves someone found in a forest, and it feels like the person is coming up on more than one charge. There's going to be lots of public controversy around this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12955</guid></item></channel></rss>