<?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 Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   There is abroad today a widespread suspicion that a robust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   There is abroad today a widespread suspicion that a robust faith in the absolute sovereignty of God is bound to undermine any adequate sense of human responsibility. Such a faith is thought to be dangerous to spiritual health because it breeds a habit of complacent inertia. In particular, it is thought to paralyse evangelism by robbing one both of the motive to evangelize and of the message to evangelize with. The supposition seems to be that you cannot evangelize effectively unless you are prepared to pretend while you are doing it, that the doctrine of divine sovereignty is not true. I shall try to make it evident that this is nonsense. I shall try to show further that, so far from inhibiting evangelism, faith in the sovereignty of God's government and grace is the only thing that can sustain it, for it is the only thing that can give us the resilience that we need if we are to evangelize boldly and persistently, and not be daunted by temporary setbacks. So far from being weakened by this faith, therefore, evangelism will inevitably be weak and lack staying power without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20337]]></link><description><![CDATA[That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20996]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25939]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,  Thou bear'st thy heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61424]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,  Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,   And death unloads thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39941]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the numbers with 20 seniors and many underclassmen that are going to play key roles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,   The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,    'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56100]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will miss a wonderful season. We've got a very talented bunch of people, and some of them are very young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29385]]></link><description><![CDATA[will miss a wonderful season. We've got a very talented bunch of people, and some of them are very young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36921]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13473]]></link><description><![CDATA[If little else, the brain is an educational toy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character structure which has survived the destruction of its intellectual and moral foundations. But equally, no one can go far in the Free Churches without lighting upon the new or newish cult of "sincerity as an end in itself" -- the first refuge of minds too lazy to rebuild their intellectual foundations -- and the sentimental distrust of "orthodoxy" and "authority", in theological contexts at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who overcomesBy force, hath overcome but half his foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who overcomesBy force, hath overcome but half his foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes;  The naked every day he clad  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes;  The naked every day he clad   When he put on his clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, the Gulf Coast is going to be rebuilt, and it's going to be great. God works in mysterious ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take life one day at a time,it's not how fast we move or how long we live..it's how we cherish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take life one day at a time,it's not how fast we move or how long we live..it's how we cherish every moment...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33903]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies,   Till the dappled dawn doth rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62008</guid></item></channel></rss>