<?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[Ignorance never settles a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10911]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And better skilled in dark events to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17090]]></link><description><![CDATA[And better skilled in dark events to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17364]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4897]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15836]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief. -The Winter's Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55773]]></link><description><![CDATA[What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief. -The Winter's Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the main factor weighing heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37401]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get open and I get separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   I shall behold your face!    Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. I didn't really have anyone to hang out with. I was a golfing machine. I'd play, I'd eat, I'd go back to a private house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45210]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future ain't what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future ain't what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36787]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer than two years, this is the least I can do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12325]]></link><description><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33787]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33787</guid></item></channel></rss>