<?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[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together and make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39001]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our hearts and lives. But unto whom He is the hope of future glory, unto them He is the life of present grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36684]]></link><description><![CDATA[These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I never saw any human flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely. They believe in the power of the spirit, in the goodness which is at the heart of things, in the triumph which is in store for the great moral ideals of the race. But this great faith only too often leads to an optimism which is sadly and fatally at variance with actual results. It is the realist and not the idealist who is generally justified by events. We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle. . . . Paris proved this terrible truth once more. It was not Wilson who failed there, but humanity itself. It was not the statesmen that failed, so much as the spirit of the peoples behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27327]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20910]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48874]]></link><description><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with love for God. He reaches out to foreigners who are beyond the borders of the "Israel of God". He seeks the release of captives, prisoners, and slaves. He denounces the scribes and religious leaders who "devour the houses of widows". Despite his well-known requirement of loyalty that surpasses family ties, he insists that a man put the care of his own parents ahead of his obligations to his religion. His treatment of women is radically opposed to the strictures of that day. He exhibits sympathy and understanding toward children. He operates an out-patient clinic wherever he happens to be. He insists upon justice as the basis for everyday dealings between citizens. The social teaching of parables like "the good Samaritan" and incidents such as the encounter with the rich young ruler have had an effect upon his followers that cannot easily be measured. If one summary statement of Jesus' ethics can be made, it is that love of God is best shown by love of fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39274]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue about it, saying 'I had to do it last year'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58033]]></link><description><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55474]]></link><description><![CDATA[That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41403]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third floor suffered extensive fire damage and is a total loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;   And all thy hues were born in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335</guid></item></channel></rss>