<?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[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45367]]></link><description><![CDATA[You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects introduced into the curriculum of a school, it is only too possible for men to be held to be educated and intelligent without ever having seriously tested their intelligence upon, say, the Book of Job, or upon the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. No doubt there are very good excuses for this lack of discipline. Many forward-thinking men will tell you that the Bible is not worth serious attention, that it is simple, trivial, and out-of-date; and so, even though you may hear the Bible read, read it yourselves, or even study it, the tension of your energy may be relaxed -- subtly relaxed. But is quite certain that a widespread relaxation of the tension of Biblical interpretation has disastrous effects. For there is no corruption that threatens a country so surely as the corruption or sentimentalizing of its religion; and there is no corruption of the Christian religion so swift as that which sets in when the Church loses its strict Biblical discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   Come to the Bible, not to study the history of God's divine action, but to be its object; not to learn what it has achieved throughout the centuries and still does, but simply to be the subject of its operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27036]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/172</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[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[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65058]]></link><description><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</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[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always good to win the first match of the series, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always good to win the first match of the series,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find only what you bring in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find only what you bring in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, because it's the perfect way to ride this race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where thou art, that is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where thou art, that is home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had to go to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She dominates pretty much everywhere she goes. She's hard to hit. She's probably the best in the district. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34264]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dominates pretty much everywhere she goes. She's hard to hit. She's probably the best in the district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52808]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44265]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry  Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky  On Friday, clamour and display Smote Him; no solitude had He. No silence, since Gethsemane. Public was death; but power, but might,  But life again, but victory, Were hushed within the dead of night,  The shuttered dark, the secrecy. And all alone, alone, alone He rose again behind the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some credit in being jolly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some credit in being jolly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20319</guid></item></channel></rss>