<?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[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50965]]></link><description><![CDATA[After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11115]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11224]]></link><description><![CDATA[How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and god mercer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's rare to have someone like him, someone who can keep moving. We didn't have to blitz a lot, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's rare to have someone like him, someone who can keep moving. We didn't have to blitz a lot, just used a three-man line with eight defensive backs sometimes to get pressure. It didn't matter who we were playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals Himself to me, my answer may perhaps provoke your smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand drawing me, leading me, grasping me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14296]]></link><description><![CDATA[From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They believe in their heart of hearts that their comprehensive plan is going to do more than Hilton's $70 per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They believe in their heart of hearts that their comprehensive plan is going to do more than Hilton's $70 per share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We play together so well as a team. There's no drama. All the girls get along. There's a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We play together so well as a team. There's no drama. All the girls get along. There's a lot of team chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a shame. If these guys are going to come to the ultimate meet for these kids, they should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a shame. If these guys are going to come to the ultimate meet for these kids, they should be coming in better equipped to handle diving like that. He's not your ordinary high school diver. There were some scores in there that were an injustice to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.  ... Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World  ... Also see comments on this book in Bookworms August 23, 2000 Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52759]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big step because of the complexity. This will be a nine- to 12-month process just to build this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big step because of the complexity. This will be a nine- to 12-month process just to build this new platform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the educated are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the educated are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7958]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race. There is something more true in his denunciation of idolatry as sin than in our denial that it is possible for a man to worship an idol, or in our suggestion that all idolatry is only a road to spiritual worship of the one true God... One day, I think, we shall return to these stern doctrines, realizing in them a truth more profound than we now know, and then we shall preach them with conviction, and, being convinced ourselves, we shall convince others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24838</guid></item></channel></rss>