<?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[Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33908]]></link><description><![CDATA[People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal of the arts in their worship and drama and visual film are doing it in part because they realize film and television are really the language of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33908</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/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63618]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where would we be without salt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where would we be without salt?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25217]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes without saying that it's a big game, we knew that even before the Chelsea game, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that it's a big game, we knew that even before the Chelsea game,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real important part of returns isn't taking a number off a W-2 form and putting it in Box No. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real important part of returns isn't taking a number off a W-2 form and putting it in Box No. 1, ... The real value is what's retained within the CPA firm -- the tax planning and the review.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but yourself who are your greatest foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13856]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but yourself who are your greatest foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth   Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the Index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal, literary form, by ignoring its historical-grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bible's own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of the intelligentsia towards the spokesmen of Christian opinion. When I was a child, bishops expressed doubts about the Resurrection, and were called courageous. When I was a girl, G. K. Chesterton professed belief in the Resurrection, and was called whimsical. When I was at college, thoughtful people expressed belief in the Resurrection "in a spiritual sense", and were called advanced; (any other kind of belief was called obsolete, and its professors were held to be simpleminded). When I was middle-aged, a number of lay persons, including some poets and writers of popular fiction, put forward rational arguments for the Resurrection, and were called courageous. Today, any lay apologist for Christianity... whose works are sold and read, is liable to be abused in no uncertain terms as a mountebank, a reactionary, a tool of the Inquisition, a spiritual snob, an intellectual bully, an escapist, an obstructionist, a psychopathic introvert, an insensitive extrovert, and an enemy of society. The charges are not always mutually compatible, but the common animus behind them is unmistakable, and its name is fear. Writers who attack these domineering Christians are called courageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ensuring ... the program is not being taken advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studious of elegance and ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studious of elegance and ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30419]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in a farm that doesn't want them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9207]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide waving wings expanded bear   The flying chariot through the fields of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States are great engines moving slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17976]]></link><description><![CDATA[States are great engines moving slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I choke while reading this, it's only from my love for Bill, ... What a price this family has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33030]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I choke while reading this, it's only from my love for Bill, ... What a price this family has paid for Miss Allard's conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment how to express that principle in action. It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that, in spite of appearances, they were in fact one. If, in their seeking after external reunion, they realized that they were seeking not to create a unity which does not yet exist, but to find an expression for a unity which does exist, which is indeed the one elemental reality, they would approach one another in a better frame of mind. The common recognition of the principle would in itself be a unifying force of great value, and would dispose those who shared it to approach questions of difference in a spirit of unity which would immensely assist their deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7476</guid></item></channel></rss>