<?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[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If e'er she knew an evil thought She spoke no evil word:  Peace to the gentle! She hath sought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If e'er she knew an evil thought She spoke no evil word:  Peace to the gentle! She hath sought   The bosom of her Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now. She just found out she could score. We're giving (her) the green light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36085]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now. She just found out she could score. We're giving (her) the green light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65747]]></link><description><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character structure which has survived the destruction of its intellectual and moral foundations. But equally, no one can go far in the Free Churches without lighting upon the new or newish cult of "sincerity as an end in itself" -- the first refuge of minds too lazy to rebuild their intellectual foundations -- and the sentimental distrust of "orthodoxy" and "authority", in theological contexts at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is  Of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is  Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:   Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother,    Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This business will never hold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024]]></link><description><![CDATA[This business will never hold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall between people and say only those things which they deserve to hear, but don't break relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22382]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in whichall goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those inwhich the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life isdesigned to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty anduncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. Wesurvive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want itany other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Apes and the Two Travelers TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who toldnothing but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Apes and the Two Travelers TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who toldnothing but lies, were traveling together and by chance came tothe land of Apes. One of the Apes, who had raised himself to beking, commanded them to be seized and brought before him, that hemight know what was said of him among men. He ordered at thesame time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on hisright hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him,as was the custom among men. After these preparations hesignified that the two men should be brought before him, andgreeted them with this salutation: What sort of a king do I seemto you to be, O strangers?' The Lying Traveler replied, You seemto me a most mighty king. And what is your estimate of thoseyou see around me?' These, he made answer, are worthycompanions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors andleaders of armies. The Ape and all his court, gratified with thelie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer. On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, If so great areward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded,if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?' The Ape quicklyturned to him. And pray how do I and these my friends around meseem to you?' Thou art, he said, a most excellent Ape, and allthese thy companions after thy example are excellent Apes too.The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave himover to the teeth and claws of his companions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51873]]></link><description><![CDATA[When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62441]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,  And is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,  And is enough for both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms  And secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms  And secretly to greet the empress's friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one thing to be brave -- another to be stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to be brave -- another to be stupid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely an advantage playing all our Sectional games here. It takes time, but eventually you realize it's the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33048]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely an advantage playing all our Sectional games here. It takes time, but eventually you realize it's the same distance to the rim and you start to shoot the ball [well].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   Those of a strong doctrinal background... assumed that Christ tied the knot when the catechism was memorized and parroted correctly. The result: a generation so obsessed with saying it right, they hardly dare say it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16466]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fortune to forget]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481]]></link><description><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105</guid></item></channel></rss>