<?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[A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16371</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[Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a great adventure or nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about "pie in the sky", and of being told that we are trying to "escape" from the duty of making a happy world here and now, into dreams of a better world elsewhere. But either there is "pie in the sky" or there is not. If there is not, then Christianity is false, for this doctrine is woven into its whole fabric. If there is, then this doctrine, like any other, must be faced, whether it is useful at political meetings or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will not be saved merely because people go to church, ours or any other's. If we seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will not be saved merely because people go to church, ours or any other's. If we seem to say [that the world will be so saved] to the tormented nations, this is only a measure of our failure to see that the Anglican Communion is not an end in itself. And what an impertinence it is when we fail to see that -- when we seem to say to the world that their only hope is in the tepid conventions of our club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25586]]></link><description><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live for this moment. This is what coaching is all about. When your back is to the wall, that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live for this moment. This is what coaching is all about. When your back is to the wall, that's when character is revealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16550]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be;  His bill was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4285]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be;  His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black,   So long was his tail, and so glossy his back,    That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs,     And only just left them to stretch her poor legs,      And pick for a minute the worm she preferred,       Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell  From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell  From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts   Were always downward bent, admiring more    The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,     Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed      In vision beatific.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun:  Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59416]]></link><description><![CDATA[L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun:  Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,   As the bright moon and much praise won.    The Earl of Stair, whose turn next came,     Gave for his toast his own King Will,      As Joshua the sun of Nun,       Who made both Sun and Moon stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, he's in your ear screaming. It's new, but I think it's going to be good for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the public, appear more genuinely apologetic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. -Charles W. Mayo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5597]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52125]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God -- that his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61249]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger should never be an overnight guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger should never be an overnight guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item></channel></rss>