<?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[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica  December 16, 2002   Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it... A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue   Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,    And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried before the bar of the Eternal, and found wanting? Nor can any nation survive, or re-establish lasting peace, if it rests on those foundations on which contemporary nations have been built, our own included. What are those crumbling foundations? Conceit, self-will, denial of discipline, self-expressionism, secularism, this worldliness, greed, entrenched privilege, defiance of God's desire. On base absurdities have we built. Have we now moral courage to face our common sin, or are we content to trust in one form of armed wickedness to overcome the evils of another form of the same mad folly? Merely by smashing our enemies we shall not remake the world. By Beelzebub no devils are cast out... (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing into the pipeline this morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time and design a coalition government that will be stable and stay the course for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money wants no followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money wants no followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26939]]></link><description><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock at a higher valuation, ... If you keep raising estimates, you probably could keep expanding the multiple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28835]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64470]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. Everyone understands the need to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61201]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion wehold of ourselves with the appalling things that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion wehold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think aboutus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3062</guid></item></channel></rss>