<?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[But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34278]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The captive birds no longer flewTheir cadaverous bodies giving fluand Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Birdin Aviano ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The captive birds no longer flewTheir cadaverous bodies giving fluand Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Birdin Aviano and everywhere daily grew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a huge risk taker... I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a huge risk taker... I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. "Religion" means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the balmy air of night    How they ring out their delight!     From the molten golden notes,      And all in tune       What a liquid ditty floats        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats         On the moon!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21452]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue ofResponsibility on the west coast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue ofResponsibility on the west coast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestinians and the militants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestinians and the militants fighting for peace on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32119]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you only score 10 runs in Coors Field, you're struggling in hitting, whereas most other places that's about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you only score 10 runs in Coors Field, you're struggling in hitting, whereas most other places that's about average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything youwant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21444]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything youwant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21402]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20959]]></link><description><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65495]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60432]]></link><description><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49101]]></link><description><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day, do the day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58306]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day, do the day's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then I got a call from Eastern Oklahoma State, a junior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then I got a call from Eastern Oklahoma State, a junior college, and they offered me a scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and suspend its functions when it opens the New Testament. It cannot make itself the slave of men, not even though the men are Peter and Paul and John; no, not even though it were the Son of Man Himself. It resents dictation, not willfully nor wantonly, but because it must; and it resents it all the more when it claims to be inspired. If, therefore, the Atonement can only be received by those who are prepared from the threshold to acknowledge the inspiration and the consequent authority of Scripture, it can never be received by modern men at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item></channel></rss>