<?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[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our exhibitors represent the best that the industry has to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our exhibitors represent the best that the industry has to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We have four peer advisers that have all gone abroad, and they are very enthusiastic about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3646]]></link><description><![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49396]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,   Whose joys are chastened by their grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with law is lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with law is lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14580]]></link><description><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Aesthetics of Repetition II ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Aesthetics of Repetition II]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian Anderson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15683]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62671]]></link><description><![CDATA[What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child;  Thou hast by moonlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child;  Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung   With feigning voice verses of feigning love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57712]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and there are too many lawsuits, those companies will withdraw from the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through Him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through Him, a falling in love with our fellows. Of course, such a way is hard and costly, but it is also joyous and rewarding even in the here-and-now. People who follow that Way know beyond all possible argument that they are in harmony with the purpose of God, that Christ is with them and in them as they set about His work in our disordered world. If anyone thinks this is perilous and revolutionary teaching, so much the better. That is exactly what they thought of the teaching of Jesus Christ. The light He brought to bear upon human affairs is almost unbearably brilliant: but it is the light of Truth, and in that light human problems can be solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before I take it. I don't compose my shots through the viewfinder, so I'm not keeping my camera visible for long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65623</guid></item></channel></rss>