<?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[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was anything great achieved without danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was anything great achieved without danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34905]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like to kind of still use my brain instead of just running around with the kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49571]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41285]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null and void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,   Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about finalizing our new location in the Greenville area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about finalizing our new location in the Greenville area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got to be fast -- and I'm faster than 4.5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50385]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dull not device by coldness and delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dull not device by coldness and delay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66592]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52052]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55666]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. We're all really strong riders and we're all really fit, but to have that podium ride or world championship everything has to come together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13317</guid></item></channel></rss>