<?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[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell  From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell  From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts   Were always downward bent, admiring more    The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,     Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed      In vision beatific.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil is being propped up by all the concerns that supplies will be interrupted. As long as the market thinks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oil is being propped up by all the concerns that supplies will be interrupted. As long as the market thinks it's possible, we might see some more increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than is needed for a pilot project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8005]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, "I just love." Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One sole meaning still the same:    This is Truth, eternal Reason,     Which from Beauty takes its dress,      And serene through time and season       Stands aye in loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16265]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this being a once a year thing. I see it being an ongoing thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37736]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this being a once a year thing. I see it being an ongoing thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of the things he has said. He keeps saying it will be a war, but he has got me more fired up than I've been for any fight and we'll see how he copes when I meet him in the middle of the ring. I think I'm too good and too hot for him to handle. He's never been at this level before and he's in for a shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day   Has Spain had heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are good corporate citizens in the community. Both companies were involved in many community events. They participate on many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38138]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are good corporate citizens in the community. Both companies were involved in many community events. They participate on many boards in our community and they have sponsored and helped different events and organizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29839]]></link><description><![CDATA[About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed the orchards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59798]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silente man still suffers wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silente man still suffers wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need him over there on defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I felt rude, I kept seeing my bare bum - then I liked it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52617]]></link><description><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce him the vile trash to try,   Then lend his name, that other men may buy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60857</guid></item></channel></rss>