<?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[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to play for us, with his talent and abilities, and he had worked hard to get in shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storytelling, writing, and song writing are so connected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Storytelling, writing, and song writing are so connected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you 'll start having positive results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you 'll start having positive results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was scary when the ball was in the air. He almost made it. We got lucky. Virginia has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34530]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was scary when the ball was in the air. He almost made it. We got lucky. Virginia has a great team, but we found a way to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God... is fattening and feeding the children of perdition. I pray God, I may never find my will again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;  Turn giddy, and be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;  Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;   One desperate grief cures with another's languish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you can't hardly understand him. But he definitely knows what's going on. That's for sure. He sees everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16526]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can balance our budget and build these facilities we can really be a jewel in this institution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32233]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can balance our budget and build these facilities we can really be a jewel in this institution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray,  Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.  Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,  Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe,  Be there at our labors, and give us, we pray,  Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.  Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,  Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace,  Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,  Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.  Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,  Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,  Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,  Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9129]]></link><description><![CDATA["Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47044]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is yet before the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is yet before the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no interest at all. My friend asked me to go, so I did. He must have been tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no interest at all. My friend asked me to go, so I did. He must have been tired or something, because he didn't speak a word. So I thought, 'What a boring guy.' I actually left pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27674]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. But they ask if the cure is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself. [Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651</guid></item></channel></rss>