<?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[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous; some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city. But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained, of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill, enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of it came up to him and went into his blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of expected him to be suspended. Kicking has no part in this game. I understand the suspension. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of expected him to be suspended. Kicking has no part in this game. I understand the suspension. It's tough. Things happen so quick, but you shouldn't kick anyone. I think he realizes his mistake and I don't think you will see him do that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  In this Body of Christ, Paul sees "the ecclesia of God". Ecclesia is a Greek word with a splendid history. It was used in the old free commonwealths of Greece for the general assembly of all free citizens, by which their common life was governed. When political liberty went, the name still survived in the restricted municipal self-government which the Roman State allowed. It was taken over by the brotherhoods and guilds which in some measure superseded the old political associations. Among the Jews who spoke Greek, this word seemed the appropriate one to describe the commonwealth of Israel as ruled by God -- the historical Theocracy. Our translation of it is "Church". That word, however, has undergone such transformations of meaning that it is often doubtful in what sense it is being used. Perhaps for ecclesia we may use the word -- simpler, more general, and certainly nearest to its original meaning -- "commonwealth". [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through all the weary hours,   And meeting strangely at one sudden goal,    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,     Into one beautiful and perfect whole;      And life's long night is ended, and the way       Lies open onward to eternal day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mare's nest hast thou found?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2043]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,   Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,   Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,    I have no relish of them, but abound     In the division of each several crime,      Acting in many ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10-kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10-kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clyde was just unconscious tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36849]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cannot be shared with anyone not on this distribution list,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11855]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that by working together we were able to come up with a suitable location for her fund-raiser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that by working together we were able to come up with a suitable location for her fund-raiser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good heart cannot lye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49028]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good heart cannot lye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34784</guid></item></channel></rss>