<?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[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the whole heart. It is not the understanding of the mind, not the theological opinion, not creed, not organization, not ritual. It is the koinonia of the whole personality with God and Christ, ... This experience of communion with Christ is itself the continual attitude of dependence on the Saviour which we call faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Domestic violence) is such a dark social issue, we opted to have a fun event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33344]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Domestic violence) is such a dark social issue, we opted to have a fun event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19767]]></link><description><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49317]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43831]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5776]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell   Themselves when they be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right reason is stronger than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right reason is stronger than force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held hostage did not return to school after the attack. Parents and children are fearful and mistrustful about school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40838</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minnesota is one of very few parts of the country where we have anything closed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minnesota is one of very few parts of the country where we have anything closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6763]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Chuang Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10714]]></link><description><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mortals. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mortals. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28140]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28287</guid></item></channel></rss>