<?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["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19045]]></link><description><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as Christians must involve our denominations in changes even greater than those which many of us now expect. His insistence on taking seriously the gropings of all men for the truth about their lives must be allowed to remind the ecumenical movement that the word oikoumene is Greek not for "the Church" but for "the whole inhabited world". The ecumenical movement is more than Christian patriarchs kissing. Christian unity means the unity of mankind in finding and obeying God. Tillich can teach us that the Church must not shut its door to celebrate a family reunion while a single child of God remains outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got frustrated. You know how it is when seniors know they might be playing their last game. They get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got frustrated. You know how it is when seniors know they might be playing their last game. They get a little frustrated and lose their poise a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed me around campus. We had a few classes together over the summer and we just connected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. Thatkeeps me on my toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21547]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. Thatkeeps me on my toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only little people pay taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only little people pay taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees   A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,    And all its tossing current white with foam,     And stops and turns, and measures back his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who fears noises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36199]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all light, all influence, all fate,   Nothing to him falls early or too late.    Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,     Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3324]]></link><description><![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21500]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball very well even though we played good defense. They got too many hits. I think we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31320]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball very well even though we played good defense. They got too many hits. I think we [also] hit the ball pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what is needed to make their payments and avoid the foreclosure process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do watch which files we send overseas. There are some [for which] you don't want to have foreign accents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35850]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do watch which files we send overseas. There are some [for which] you don't want to have foreign accents, such as our government title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient as thou art,   Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure    Of those physicians that first wounded thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, it's very important for the team and the city. We're trying to win championships, and anything that takes away from that concentration (such as contract issues) hurts. I think we can be one of the top three teams in the West. We have a great team and great coach. And we have an asset that a lot of teams don't have with Yao in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Therefore it is not an inferior thing which has made the will evil, but it is itself which has become so by wickedly and inordinately desiring an inferior thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real presence of Christ's most precious Body and Blood is not to be sought for in the Sacrament, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real presence of Christ's most precious Body and Blood is not to be sought for in the Sacrament, but in the worthy receiver of the Sacrament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31232</guid></item></channel></rss>