<?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 Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English -- just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this part should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to learn Bantu, but never ask whether our missionaries to the Americans or English can speak American or English. Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A most delicious banquet by his bed,   And brave attendants near him when he wakes,    Would not the beggar then forget himself?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60980]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect that on Wednesday we will be asking people to inform the inquiry as to whether they have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect that on Wednesday we will be asking people to inform the inquiry as to whether they have any wish to examine the prime minister in relation to his statement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26227]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40398]]></link><description><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this team. They have a lot of experience and their seasoned competitors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the true interpretation, but we are none the less bound to refuse and wait for more light. To accept that as the will of our Lord which to us is inconsistent with what we learned to worship in Him already, is to introduce discord into that harmony whose end is to unite our hearts, and make them whole. "Is it for us," says the objector who, by some sleight of will, believes in the word apart from the meaning for which it stands, "to judge the character of our Lord?" I answer, "This very thing He requires of us." He requires of us that we should do Him no injustice. He would come and dwell with us, if we would but open our chambers to receive Him. How shall we receive Him is, avoiding judgement, we hold this or that daub of authority or tradition hanging upon our walls to be the real likeness of our Lord?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48031]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't an overnight fix. When it's down for 20 years, it doesn't fix itself overnight. We have make sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36068]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't an overnight fix. When it's down for 20 years, it doesn't fix itself overnight. We have make sure we have the pieces in place - the facilities, the staff, the institutional commitment - to move in the right direction. That commitment is there. ... How do we conduct ourselves? How do we do business? I just want to make sure we're maximizing the opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to match their physicality. They [officials] let everything go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to match their physicality. They [officials] let everything go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure;  And since time will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44509]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure;  And since time will not stay,   We'll add night to the day,    Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48821</guid></item></channel></rss>