<?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[You won't believe this but we've actually had people coming in wanting to buy all of our old equipment. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't believe this but we've actually had people coming in wanting to buy all of our old equipment. It's just too soon. Way too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is just mind control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is just mind control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And with the saints, a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[We believe] that today's weakness related to the news that Russia is pulling poultry import licenses is a buying opportunity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34812]]></link><description><![CDATA[[We believe] that today's weakness related to the news that Russia is pulling poultry import licenses is a buying opportunity. We believe that the Russian government will issue the licenses fairly quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning six flights rather convincingly. Good performance by everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our worldwide share is high, we have to spur technological innovations from the viewpoint of usability. I think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39652]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our worldwide share is high, we have to spur technological innovations from the viewpoint of usability. I think it's our company's duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696]]></link><description><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner then a teare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner then a teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39415]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747]]></link><description><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66300]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14920]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13091]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand    Are we now smitten."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6161]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61049]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once known as Christendom force one to confront the question whether the path of Wisdom is not rather to attempt to work out a Christian doctrine of modern society and to order our national life in accordance with it? Those who would give a quick, easy or confident answer to this question have failed to understand it. It cannot even be seriously considered without a profound awareness of the extent to which Christian ideas have lost their hold over, or faded from the consciousness of, large sections of the population; of the far-reaching changes that would be called for in the structure, institutions and activities of existing society, which is in many of its features a complete denial of the Christian understanding of the meaning and end of man's existence; and of the stupendous and costly spiritual, moral, and intellectual effort that any genuine attempt to order national life in accordance with the Christian understanding of life would demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7190</guid></item></channel></rss>