<?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[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   The Hebrew religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   The Hebrew religion was an unfinished religion. That is one of the best proofs of its divine inspiration. The prophets had the forward look [and] great things were yet to come. As one of the most daring expressed it, the old and hallowed covenant, made by God at the Exodus, would be superseded by a new and higher relation; God would write his law into the hearts of the people; the old drill in outward statutes would disappear, for all men would know God by an inward experience of forgiveness and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody loves you when they are about to cum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look into the face of Jesus that we are looking into the face of God? The answer is so plain and simple that it is a marvel how intelligent men can manage to miss it as they do. Look at what Christ has done for the soul of man: that is your answer. Christianity is just Christ --nothing more and nothing less. It is a way of life, and He is that way. It is the truth about human destiny, and He is that truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,--  The streaming red, the deeper blue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16140]]></link><description><![CDATA[England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,--  The streaming red, the deeper blue,   Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white?    The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red--     Let Asia's groaning millions speak;      The white it tells of colour fled       From starving Erin's pallid cheek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18695]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older and younger players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746]]></link><description><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54940]]></link><description><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   A little shade, the only one;    But shadows ever man pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46603]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a human look in its swelling breast,   And the gentle curve of its lowly crest;    And I often stop with the fear I feel--     He runs so close to the rapid wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can't get adopted, they will stay here. This is going to be their home for the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31048]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can't get adopted, they will stay here. This is going to be their home for the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration ofvictory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration ofvictory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38595]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise a lot and give even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise a lot and give even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41294]]></link><description><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32340]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is remarkable. While it is intriguing, it is preliminary and we'll look for other studies to confirm the finding. Then, we need basic science to figure out how it is helping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[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[Money grows on the tree of persistence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money grows on the tree of persistence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46199</guid></item></channel></rss>