<?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[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart  Is stirred thus in the wound again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart  Is stirred thus in the wound again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and -- if he has attained a high degree of emancipation -- from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sandstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city -- anonymous, identical, replaceable units. In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man's loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: "Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it related to, and dis tinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?" The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27292]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up "Stars and Stripes Forever."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11844]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, consume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably just collapsed and never got up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30203]]></link><description><![CDATA[An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and they have a stake in our economy, ... Middle income Americans need a capital gains tax cut and I intend to give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42606]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17658]]></link><description><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess it's just one of those things. I think we've played some really good games against the Eastern teams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess it's just one of those things. I think we've played some really good games against the Eastern teams because we respect them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to die young as late as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to die young as late as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here when we had to make them, I think that's a great sign for our guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    Here is the great truth that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    Here is the great truth that, only when we see things in the light of God, do we see things as they are. It is only when we see things in the light of God that we see what things are really important, and what things are not. These things seem vastly important, things like ambition, and prestige, and money and gain, lose all their value and importance when they are seen in the light of God. Pleasures and habits and social customs which seem permissible enough, are seen for the dangerous things they are when they are seen in the light of God. Things which seem evils, hardship, toil, discipline, unpopularity, even persecution, are seen in their glory when they are seen in the light of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   When evangelicals call the Bible "inerrant", part at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   When evangelicals call the Bible "inerrant", part at least of their meaning is this: that, in exegesis and exposition of Scripture and in building up our biblical theology from the fruits of our Bible study, we may not (1) deny, disregard, or arbitrarily relativize, anything that the biblical writers teach, nor (2) discount any of the practical implications for worship and service that their teaching carries, nor (3) cut the knot of any problem of Bible harmony, factual or theological, by allowing ourselves to assume that the inspired writers were not necessarily consistent either with themselves or with each other. It is because the word "inerrant" makes these methodological points about handling the Bible, ruling out in advance the use of mental procedures that can only lead to reduced and distorted versions of Christianity, that it is so valuable and, I think, so much valued by those who embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   Who was it that set up the Cross? Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   Who was it that set up the Cross? Not fiends incarnate, but plain flesh and blood like us; quite ordinary men, decent and kindly souls enough, some of whom, no doubt, went to their homes that day from Calvary and took their children on their knees and loved them very genuinely. Only, they were a bit old fashioned in the make-up of their minds, had grown stiff and inelastic in their thinking, inhospitable to new notions -- surely a very minor sin at worst -- and some feared for their vested interests; and one, poor Pilate, had lost his temper with these impossible Jews in days gone by, and had received a curt warning from Rome that there must be no further bloodshed in Jerusalem, and here was a new trouble at the very worst of times in the whole year, with fanatics in tens of thousands come up for the Feast; and one wanted to save the world by quick-running machinery, and so put Christ into a situation where He could no longer dilly-dally but must do something vivid, dramatic, revolutionary. And the people? No need for us to bother being there at the decision between Jesus and Barabbas. We had the lined streets cheering for Him yesterday. And we have relatives to see, and messages from neighbours to deliver to their kindred. He will be all right; we needn't worry to be there. Such simple and plebian sins -- minds grown a trifle out of date, a little selfishness, some temper and its consequences, a bit of worldly wisdom, and an indifference that did nothing at all -- these brought about the shame of mankind, and the tragedy of history, and the blot upon our annals that will not rub out. And they are all of them within your heart and mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as there is life, there is danger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11050]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as there is life, there is danger]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36625</guid></item></channel></rss>