<?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[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well on the PK (penalty kill). I'm just trying to carry that into these last games of the season here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  Our thoughtful observer who is outside the Churches has done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  Our thoughtful observer who is outside the Churches has done a good deal of thinking on his own. The discoveries of modern physical and biological science, of astronomy, and of psychology, have profoundly influenced his conception of the "size" of God. If there be a Mind behind the immense complexities of the phenomena that man can observe, then it is that of a Being tremendous in His power and wisdom: it is emphatically not that of a little god. It is perfectly conceivable that such a Being has a moral purpose which is being worked out on the stage of this small planet. It is even possible to believe that such a God deliberately reduced Himself to the stature of humanity in order to visit the earth in Person, as all Christians affirm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is simply to request equal treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37615]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is simply to request equal treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14860]]></link><description><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;  All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. What a selfish Dog! said one of them to his companions; he cannot eat the hay himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God's truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when... five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already. Beware of being wise and prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Sadat was killed by an extremist MuslimPresident Rabin was killed by an extremist JewMahatma Gandhi was killed by an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45950]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Sadat was killed by an extremist MuslimPresident Rabin was killed by an extremist JewMahatma Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hinduat Cleveland City Club..(to which could be added:Many American soldiers have been killed by extremist Christians).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts -- apply for compensation from the French authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is heaven always at peace. [Lat., Nec sidera pacem  Semper habent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is heaven always at peace. [Lat., Nec sidera pacem  Semper habent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51563]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked the feeling of being in the middle of trouble and trying to find a way out. Football is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked the feeling of being in the middle of trouble and trying to find a way out. Football is my life story happening on a football field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas he soared up and awayand out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't scared of them. We felt we could match up with them. The only thing was that I think we got away from attacking like we had. They had 20 turnovers, but we didn't take advantage of as many of them as we should have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40231]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, authorof The Hiding Place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26193]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61192]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43858]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43858</guid></item></channel></rss>