<?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[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of how an unholy concourse of sinful men and women can be in truth the body of Christ is the same as the problem of how a sinful man can at the same time be accepted as a child of God... Our present situation arises precisely from the fact that this fundamental insight, which the Reformers applied to the position of the Christian man, was not followed through in its application to the nature of the Christian church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50483]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm banking on the playoffs now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm banking on the playoffs now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulness -- and the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46755]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes,  When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,"--   There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;    But whenever the May-blood stires and glows,     And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"      And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,--       Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25256]]></link><description><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2190]]></link><description><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48284]]></link><description><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9102]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale.  Come, darkness, moonrise, everything   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale.  Come, darkness, moonrise, everything   That is so silent, sweet, and pale:    Come, so ye wake the nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars,   And night infolds the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than I can see, Mother! In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, What is it?' The young Mole said, It is a pebble. His Mother exclaimed: My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17720</guid></item></channel></rss>