<?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[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132]]></link><description><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;  If I can ease one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;  If I can ease one life the aching,   Or cool one pain,    Or help one fainting robin     Into his nest again,      I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  How readily we assume that the Church is the only channel of divine action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  How readily we assume that the Church is the only channel of divine action among men! Common sense tells us this assumption is wrong -- and nothing in the Bible supports such a conclusion. Believing that God is the Lord of history, we believe that God is at work now in the development of industry and commerce throughout the world, in the experiments and researches of the scientists, in the deliberations of the United Nations, and in the course of events in Berlin and Havana, in Moscow and Peiping, and Detroit. One might say, then that He seems to be doing some very strange and contradictory things! But, though we cannot claim to know God's purpose in all this, we do believe that God acts in all these circumstances. The revolutionary changes of our time are not all a mistake: they are not taking place without God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as other men. We don't despise God's name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity. He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding it now accused by many of favouring that abominable fluid grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God's name in vain than this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action -- the sin of believing in one's own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8196]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From heart to heart it sinks, it steals, it flows, From these that know thee still infecting those. Here is my heart -- from thine, Lord, fill it up, That I may offer it as the holy cup Of thy communion to my every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter; God needs a man who will let go and deliver blows right and left as hard as he can hit, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Nothing but forked-lightning Christians will count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25700]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other historic periods where we've cut dramatically the size of the police force, there's been a concomitant increase ... in crime, ... You can't compromise public safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to know it's shit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a little frustrated because she never should have had to slide. It's a good thing she's our fastest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little frustrated because she never should have had to slide. It's a good thing she's our fastest runner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man owns land, the land owns him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man owns land, the land owns him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and they will answer these raids with actions, not words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years or so, ... there has been a shift of some academics who view McCarthy as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years or so, ... there has been a shift of some academics who view McCarthy as crude but his cause correct that communists needed to be weeded out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say it's confidence. I think last year I lacked certain fundamentals. I was inconsistent with my swing. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say it's confidence. I think last year I lacked certain fundamentals. I was inconsistent with my swing. I've worked on correcting those flaws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49550]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  There is a cowardice in this age which is not Christian. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  There is a cowardice in this age which is not Christian. We shrink from the consequences of truth. We look round and cling dependently. We ask what men will think; what others will say; whether they will not stare in astonishment. Perhaps they will; but he who is calculating that, will accomplish nothing in this life. The Father -- the Father which is with us and in us -- what does He think? God's work cannot be done without a spirit of independence. A man is got some way in the Christian life when he has learned to say, humbly yet majestically, "I dare to be alone.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep unto deep, O Lord,   Crieth in me, Gathering strength I come,  Lord, unto Thee. Jesus of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep unto deep, O Lord,   Crieth in me, Gathering strength I come,  Lord, unto Thee. Jesus of Calvary,  Smitten for me, Ask what Thou wilt, but give  Love to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. Not only at the beginning, but repeatedly, there will be times when we feel a great spiritual dryness and apathy, an aversion, even an inability to meditate. We dare not be balked by such experiences. Above all, we must not allow them to keep us from adhering to our meditation period with great patience and fidelity.  It is, therefore, not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. It is here that our old vanity and our illicit claims upon God may creep in by a pious detour, as if it were our right to have nothing but elevating and fruitful experiences, and as if the discovery of our own inner poverty were quite beneath our dignity. With that attitude, we shall make no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time Bomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a common thing we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a common thing we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54337]]></link><description><![CDATA[All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54337</guid></item></channel></rss>