<?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 the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary  The fall was simply this, that some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary  The fall was simply this, that some creature -- that is, something which is not God -- took His place with man; and man, trusting the creature more than God, walked in its light -- or darkness -- rather than in fellowship with God. Righteousness comes back when man by faith is brought to walk with God again, and to give Him His true place by acting or being acted upon in all things according to His will. Anything, therefore, not of faith is sin. And all such sin is bondage. Self-will is bondage, for self-will or independence of God means dependence on a creature; and we cannot be dependent on a creature, be it what it may, without (more or less) becoming subject to it. What has not been given up for money, or for some creature's love? But who has ever thus served the creature more than the Creator without waking at last to feel he is a bondman? I say nothing of the worse bondage which comes from our self-will, in the indulgence of our own thoughts, or passions, or affections. Even the very energies of faith, while, as yet unchastened, it acts from self, ... may only bring forth more bondage... Who but God can set men free? And He sets them free as they walk with Him. All independence of Him is darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play every game to make it to the next step, I'll definitely take something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer:   Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city just came right in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33302]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to squint to read it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17922]]></link><description><![CDATA[What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures that we have in the area. Come out and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures that we have in the area. Come out and get to know your neighbors because we're afraid of what we don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been some disappointment over hedge-fund performance in general, but investors are still after that upside potential - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been some disappointment over hedge-fund performance in general, but investors are still after that upside potential - a star manager to hit a home run for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs   On chaliced flowers that lies;    And winking Mary-buds begin     To ope their golden eyes.      With every thing that pretty is,       My lady sweet, arise,        Arise, arise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17986]]></link><description><![CDATA[So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are "our children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure everyone looks at the standings at one time or another. We knew the Yankees would be there from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure everyone looks at the standings at one time or another. We knew the Yankees would be there from Day 1. We knew it would be a tight race and it will probably come down to the last three games of the season against these guys. They're two good teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64127]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45064]]></link><description><![CDATA[This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25900]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull mother makes a scald head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull mother makes a scald head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get out in front -- you stay out in front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57505]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get out in front -- you stay out in front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17153]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill!  All the spring is in her train,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill!  All the spring is in her train,   Led by shining ranks of rain;    Pit, pat, patter, clatter,     Sudden sun and clatter patter!      . . . .       All things ready with a will,        April's coming up the hill!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2980</guid></item></channel></rss>