<?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[The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47983]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20131]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  In the whole range of history there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  In the whole range of history there is no more striking contrast than that of the Apostolic churches with the heathenism around them. They had shortcomings enough, it is true, and divisions and scandals not a few, for even apostolic times were no golden age of purity and primitive simplicity. Yet we can see that their fullness of life, and hope, and promise for the future, were a new sort of power in the world. Within their own limits they had solved almost by the way the social problem which baffled Rome, and baffles Europe still. They had lifted woman to her rightful place, restored the dignity of labour, abolished beggary, and drawn the sting of slavery. The secret of the revolution is that the selfishness of race and class were forgotten in the Supper of the Lord, and a new basis for society found in love of the visible image of God in men for whom Christ died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55971]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if the situation changes that mandates a different approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so many directions to get their wellness needs. It is our opportunity to give students more services and big space in a more modern fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have information as to who took it and where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66588]]></link><description><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28028]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! what would the world be to us  If the children were no more? We should dread the desert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! what would the world be to us  If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us  Worse than the dark before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, as [St. Paul] did, that the candidate must be of good moral character -- at least, so far as that he can produce testimonials to his good conduct. We demand, as the apostle demanded, that he must hold fast the faithful word -- at least, so far as that he shall not write deliberate heresy in his examination papers, and shall profess belief in the Creed. We demand, as he demanded, that the candidate must be apt to teach -- at least, so far as an examination of his verbal memory can prove that he knows what he ought to teach. But there is some difference between the "without reproach" of the apostle and our testimonials; and there is a difference between the holding fast of the faith by a man tried in the furnace of life, and the soundness in the faith of a youth fresh from a theological school; and the aptness to teach of a man of experience and social authority is not quite the same thing as the aptness to teach of a young man who has just passed an examination in the subject-matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to continue this cold pattern into March. The real question is how far into March this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to continue this cold pattern into March. The real question is how far into March this is going to continue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw   And pined his loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invent nothing, I rediscover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invent nothing, I rediscover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51800]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22367</guid></item></channel></rss>