<?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[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public demonstrations "Happenings". These paintings, these poems, and these demonstrations... are the expression of men who are struggling with their appalling lostness. Dare we laugh at such things? Dare we feel superior when we view their tortured expressions in their art? Christians should stop laughing and take such men seriously. Then we shall have the right to speak again to our generation. These men are dying while they live, yet where is our compassion for them? There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew it was the end of the game and that's what you have to do to win. You don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew it was the end of the game and that's what you have to do to win. You don't stop playing until there are zeros on the clock. It was an effort play and I know that's a big thing around here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn over a new leaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn over a new leaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you\'re supposed to use whatever happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66913]]></link><description><![CDATA[You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you\'re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old,  And life's latest sands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old,  And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over a garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62102]]></link><description><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempo, and offense to defense transition, is not a huge issue against the 1A schools we play, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo, and offense to defense transition, is not a huge issue against the 1A schools we play, but to beat a bigger team, it's important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little kids out in that kind of weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22019]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting the guys in Houston get out safely. Things definitely happen for a reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is worship? What ought to result from it? What is the point and peak and heart and centre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7409]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is worship? What ought to result from it? What is the point and peak and heart and centre of it? Is it the offering we bring to God of praise and adoration, of thanksgiving and sacrifice, our praise, our sacrifice to Him? That has its place, not legitimate only, but imperative. And yet to put that in the foreground is to make the service fundamentally man-centered and subjective, which, face to face with God, is surely almost unthinkably unseemly. Or is the ideal we should hold before us that other extreme, so ardently pressed on us these days, that, face to face with the Lord God Almighty, High and Holy, it is for us to forget ourselves and -- leaving behind our petty little human joys and needs and sins and risings above thanksgiving and petition and confession -- to lose ourselves in an awed adoration of God's naked and essential being, blessing and praising Him, not even for what he has done for us, and been for us, but for what, in Himself, He is. To me, that seems not an advance, but a pathetic throw-back to the primitive of Brahmanism. We shall not learn to know God better, nor how to worship Him more worthily, by careful rubbing out from memory every wonder of Christ's revelation of Him. [Excerpt continued tomorrow.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread.    Yet wears thy Tiber's shore     A mournful mien:--      Rome, Rome, thou art no more       As thou hast been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761  Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761  Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  No creature can be a child of God but because the goodness of God is in it; nor can it have any union or communion with the goodness of the Deity till its life is the Spirit of Love. This is the one only band of union betwixt God and the creature... Here the necessity is absolute; nothing will do instead of this will; all contrivances of holiness, all forms of religious piety, signify nothing without this will to all goodness. For as the will to all goodness is the whole nature of God, so it must be the whole nature of every service of religion that can be acceptable to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22797]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40219]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item></channel></rss>