<?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[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my own personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  November 13, 2001 Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   Repentance is in every view so desirable, so necessary, so suited to honor God, that I seek that above all. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. I long to be in my proper place, my hand on my mouth, and my mouth in the dust... I feel this to be safe ground. Here I cannot err... I am sure that whatever God may despise... He will not despise the broken and contrite heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seating there was very limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seating there was very limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49089]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably will see fewer people travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40909]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably will see fewer people travel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do whatever needs to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do whatever needs to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42105]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market is going to be stable, you are not going to be able to have high-powered growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of the worst things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32424]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of the worst things you can do is be in Japan and demand a fork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a real good old-fashioned panic of the kind we haven't seen in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10577]]></link><description><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8250]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, became worthless in his eyes and met with no mercy at his own hand, -- must we believe he could find no mercy in such a God? I think when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it -- I say not how. He was in a more hopeful condition now than during any moment of his past life, for he had never repented before. But I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with traitor's kiss; and I believe that He was his Saviour still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50066]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased that we came out ready to play. We played well together and played with a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased that we came out ready to play. We played well together and played with a lot of intensity. We pressured them really hard early and got some turnovers to get that good lead at the beginning of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8735]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom always says I could sing before I could talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42662]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom always says I could sing before I could talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item></channel></rss>