<?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[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Continuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Continuing a short series on Romans 8:   [Of v. 18]   The glory to come far outweighs the affliction of the present. The affliction is light and temporary when compared with the all-surpassing and everlasting glory. So Paul, writing against a background of recent and (even for him) unparalleled tribulation, had assured his friends in Corinth a year or two before this that 'this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison' (2 Cor 4:17). It is not merely that the glory is a compensation for the suffering; it actually grows out of the suffering. There is an organic relation between the two for the believer as surely as there was for the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood aloof from the world He had made, and let law take its course. He did not here and now deal with sinful men. Paul lets us see how new and wonderful was the experience when God "flashed on his heart" in personal dealing with him. He had not suspected that God was like that. His theological studies had told him that God was loving and merciful; but he had thought this love and mercy were expressed once and for all in the arrangements He had made for Israel's blessedness... It was a new thing to be assured by an inward experience admitting of no further question that God loved him, and that the eternal mercy was a Father's free forgiveness of His erring child. This was the experience that Christ had brought him: he had seen the splendour of God's own love in the face of "the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23111]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What are kings and crowns to me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60812]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've had the perfect run, you've cleared your soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've had the perfect run, you've cleared your soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been  Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne   And fall of many kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59076]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16192]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48408]]></link><description><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42595]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born,  Then will they be exempt and free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born,  Then will they be exempt and free   From love's doubt and anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") No commonplace is more untrue. Behavior, whether conditioned by an individual neurosis or by society, can be understood, that is to say, one knows exactly why such and such an individual behaves as he does. But a personal action or deed is always mysterious. When we really act, precisely because it is a matter of free choice, we can never say exactly why we do this rather than that. But it is only deeds that we are required to forgive. If someone does me an injury, the question of forgiveness only arises if I am convinced (a) that the injury he did me was a free act on his part and therefore no less mysterious to him than to me, and (b) that it was me personally whom he meant to injure. Christ does not forgive the soldiers who are nailing him to the Cross; he asks the Father to forgive them. He knows as well as they do why they are doing this -- they are a squad, detailed to execute a criminal. They do not know what they are doing, because it is not their business, as executioners, to know whom they are crucifying. If the person who does me an injury does not know what he is doing, then it is as ridiculous for me to talk about forgiving him as it would be for me to "forgive" a tile which falls on my head in a gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This business will never hold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024]]></link><description><![CDATA[This business will never hold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you raise the bar for children, they not only reach it, they far surpass it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you raise the bar for children, they not only reach it, they far surpass it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15484]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55153</guid></item></channel></rss>