<?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[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34142]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who fails to plan, plans to fail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46658]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who fails to plan, plans to fail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is equivalent to eating garbage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39904]]></link><description><![CDATA[is equivalent to eating garbage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men were angels, no government would be necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to redeem our loss.    Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defensively, we work hard at taking away the center of the field. We try to force the play to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defensively, we work hard at taking away the center of the field. We try to force the play to the outside and to clear the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40332]]></link><description><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and even jeering from other fans,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.   ... Simone Weil  August 18, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.   ... Simone Weil  August 18, 2000   My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.  ... C. J. Briejèr, letter to Rachel Carson August 19, 2000   The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4695]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24496]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48177]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nobody "out there." It's all in here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nobody "out there." It's all in here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33731]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34202]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you can say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46836]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4057]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11660</guid></item></channel></rss>