<?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[Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating healthfully. The time came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating healthfully. The time came when the Church had ceased to grow, except externally in wealth, power, and prestige; and these are mere outward adornments, or hampering burdens, very likely. They do not imply growth or creativeness. The time came when dogmatism, tyranny, and ignorance strangled the free intellectual activity of the Church, and worldliness destroyed its moral fruitfulness. Then joy spread her wings and flew away. The Christian graces care nothing for names and labels; where the Spirit of the Lord is, there they abide, but not in great Churches that have forgotten Him. How little of joy there is in the character of the religious bigot or fanatic, or in the prudent ecclesiastical statesman! A show of cheerfulness they may cultivate, as they often do; but it is like the crackling of thorns under a pot: we cannot mistake it for the joy of the Lord which is the strength of the true Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nobody is going to buy this thing, then nobody in private industry is going to support it. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nobody is going to buy this thing, then nobody in private industry is going to support it. It comes down to what will the consumer accept as an annoyance and a privacy risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28635]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18491]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be right or you can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22351]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be right or you can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the church:  By God's grace we live in a time of rediscovery of the Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the church:  By God's grace we live in a time of rediscovery of the Church and of the wholeness of the Church. We see more clearly than often has been the case that ecclesiology and christology are one. The ekklesia, the community of believers, has as its first and foremost qualification that it is that community which, as community, belongs to Christ and is in Christ, and as such is the sphere of God's salvation, redemption, and reconciliation, and of Christ's rulership. This is the archetypal reality of the Church. To see and seize this essential point is a great blessing. This blessing, however, could as well become a curse, if it remained a theme of theological meditation and self-contemplation. This new knowledge is not real knowledge if it is not accompanied by a horror about the alienation of the empirical Church from its own fundamental reality and by a deep longing for a tangible manifestation of the Church's true nature. This horror and this longing are the deeper motives which are operating in many of the events and passionate discussions around the place and responsibility of the laity as an organic part of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9076]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61305]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild in eager flow.    The earth is dried and parched with heat,     And it hath long'd to be      Released from out the selfish cloud,       To cool the thirsty tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42915]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O world as God has made it! All is beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62206]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world as God has made it! All is beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob me the exchequer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob me the exchequer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep   In the next valley-glades:    Was it a vision, or a waking dream?     Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55263]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A transcendent being can be any miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A transcendent being can be any miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1293</guid></item></channel></rss>