<?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[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224]]></link><description><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47884]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35866]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We                    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We                                                                                                                         want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a role like the one she played in 'Girl, Interrupted'. I've never met her.. I'd be so nervous! And star-struck!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to do so, still more because I am no great friend to such pigeon-holing. One very effective way of silencing the voice of conscience is to impound in an Ism the teacher through whom it speaks; the trumpet no longer seriously disturbs our rest when we have murmured '..Thomist', 'Barthian', or 'Existentialist'. And in Macdonald it is, always the voice of conscience that speaks. He addresses the will: the demand for obedience, for "something to be neither more nor less nor other than done" is incessant. Yet in that very voice of conscience every other faculty somehow speaks as well -- intellect and imagination and humour and fancy and all the affections; and no man in modern times was perhaps more aware of the distinction between Law and Gospel, the inevitable failure of mere morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20394]]></link><description><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21128]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are bychanging what goes into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48361]]></link><description><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61672]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   'Twill make your courage rise,    Twill make a man forget his wo;     'Twill heighten all his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32918]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none say, I will not drinke water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none say, I will not drinke water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That outing had no effect on me today. My arm felt 100 percent. You're going to have a bad day every now and then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57139]]></link><description><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey there, but tears and blood   Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,    And left a worse than desert where they passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376</guid></item></channel></rss>