<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet:  Find out, if you can,   Who's master, who's man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet:  Find out, if you can,   Who's master, who's man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is, so he sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44797]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is, so he sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much a replica of our own, so much that of a fundamentally settled body existing for the sake of its own members rather than that of a body of strangers and pilgrims, the sign and instrument of a supernatural and universal salvation to be revealed, that our missionary advance tends to follow the lines of cultural and political expansion. and to falter when that advance stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was nervous we weren't going to get anyone through to the states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was nervous we weren't going to get anyone through to the states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10151]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy milk the bashful rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43988]]></link><description><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60464]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47312]]></link><description><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little with quiet is the onely dyet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little with quiet is the onely dyet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56389]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56389</guid></item></channel></rss>