<?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[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46653]]></link><description><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25258]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is certainly the best second team All-ACC player that I've seen. He has played super all year giving us a stabilizing, veteran presence in the middle of a young defensive line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I am back at 100 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I am back at 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33299]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty in all things is charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty in all things is charming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning  I spied three ships come sailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8633]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning  I spied three ships come sailing in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35975]]></link><description><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25457]]></link><description><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,   Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices of those early Christians; but what struck them was the immensity of their inheritance in Christ. Take that one phrase (surely the most daring that the mind of man ever conceived), "We are the heirs of God." That is what they felt about it, that not God Himself could have a fuller life than theirs, and that even He would share all that He had with them! Tremendous words that stagger through their sheer audacity! And yet, here we are, whispering about the steepness of the way, the soreness of the self-denial, the heaviness of the cross, whining and puling, giving to those outside the utterly grotesque impression that religion is a gloomy kind of thing, a dim, monastic twilight where we sit and shiver miserably, out of the sunshine that God made for us, and meant us to enjoy -- that it is all a doing that nobody would naturally choose, and refraining from what everyone would naturally take: a species of insurance money grudgingly doled out lest some worse thing come upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. - The Rising Gorge, 1961.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . .  I would express him simple, grave, sincere;   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . .  I would express him simple, grave, sincere;   In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain,    And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,     And natural in gesture; much impress'd      Himself, as conscious of his awful charge,       And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds        May feel it too; affectionate in look,         And tender in address, as well becomes          A messenger of grace to guilty men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   But direct villainy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise,  And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,   Till we join with the planets who choir their delight,    The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies     Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,      And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair       That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one becomes perfect, but some become great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46118]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one becomes perfect, but some become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jove, thou regent of the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jove, thou regent of the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really questioned whether I could in the beginning and now that I'm seeing results and have that support, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really questioned whether I could in the beginning and now that I'm seeing results and have that support, it makes me feel that much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  He who was raised from the dead will raise us also, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  He who was raised from the dead will raise us also, if we do His will and live by His commands and love what He loved, refraining from all injustice, covetousness, love of money, evil-speaking, false witness, not returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, or blow for blow, or curse for curse, but remembering what the Lord said when He taught: Do not judge, so that you may not be judged; forgive and you will be forgiven; have mercy so that you may be shown mercy; with the measure you use men will measure back to you; and blessed are the poor and those who are persecuted for their uprightness, for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to them.  ... St. Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians February 24, 2000  In church government... our primary concern is to reflect the nature of God. Christ became man in order that He might redeem men from their fallen state, from their selfishness and self-isolating divisions from God and from each other; so that, gathered together in one in Him, man may offer to God that likeness to Himself in love for which he was created. Church government is primarily concerned with this: with worship, with the drawing of the whole life of the whole world into this reflection of the nature of God. It is secondly -- and only secondly -- concerned with the quarrels and peccadilloes of those who are not, as a matter of fact, imitating God's nature very faithfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18812]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55971]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11274]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11274</guid></item></channel></rss>