<?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[Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according to Prof. [William] Ramsay's calculation, he had laboured for only five months. Thus his stay had not been long enough for him to do more than teach the fundamental truths which seemed to him of the first importance: all the circumstances of his visit were still fresh in his memory and he was recalling to the minds of his readers what he had taught them by word of mouth. Now in that Epistle we get an extraordinarily clear and coherent account of simple mission-preaching not only implied but definitely expressed. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37237]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not now That which I have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now That which I have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23419]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37097]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become who he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20628]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18257]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51696]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled for utterances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled for utterances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36945]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest things are often the truest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest things are often the truest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62445]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign,  And unknown regions date descry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign,  And unknown regions date descry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8225]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first to inquire will soonest be gladdened with revelation; and with them He will be best pleased, for the slowness of His disciples troubled Him of old. To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came to this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher of men, giving to them of His Spirit -- that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind, ... People can actually see your soul. It's so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind, ... People can actually see your soul. It's so bizarre. I'm glad I did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36294]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item></channel></rss>