<?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[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64900]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers have made use of this fact to point out helpful spiritual implications; and yet, by New Testament times, the word carried no such denotation as "called out." It was simply the word for "assembly" or "congregation." It so happened that in the Greek city-states an assembly of the citizenry resulted from the people being called out of their city and summoned from their farms to participate in such gatherings. Even though the etymology of the word remains, its real meaning is just "assembly," and a Greek-speaking person of New Testament times would be no more inclined to understand ekklesia in its original etymological value of "called out" than we today would recognize "God be with you" in "good-by," which, as we may learn from the dictionary, was derived from the longer phrase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to thatdegree we are wealthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21380]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to thatdegree we are wealthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret of success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret of success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My response to them is that?s looking backwards, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38958]]></link><description><![CDATA[My response to them is that?s looking backwards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to God. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach. The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54219]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that could bring trouble for us. Brazil still needs foreign financing this year...so we need the flow of foreign funds to continue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36199]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55244]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."  "They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."  "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;   But when did woman ever yet invent?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps the soul at a holy distance from these infinite depths of divine wisdom, where it profits more by reverence and holy fear than any can do by their utmost attempt to draw nigh to that inaccessible light wherein these glories of the divine nature do dwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47610</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><item><title><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using blanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh no, no, no, I dare not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item></channel></rss>