<?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[When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23930]]></link><description><![CDATA[When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So as you can see it has constantly evolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40578]]></link><description><![CDATA[So as you can see it has constantly evolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12310]]></link><description><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360</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><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found demanding, and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn Swann is Western Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By Victory made    Whose wings right o'er us hover!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. This is also another indisputable reality of the present world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom says for a good half-hour he searches for me everywhere, so it's hard to leave him when I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32548]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom says for a good half-hour he searches for me everywhere, so it's hard to leave him when I know he does that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just like classic cars. Rich and Guy both liked classic cars, so it really goes back to them. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33305]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just like classic cars. Rich and Guy both liked classic cars, so it really goes back to them. It was a fun hobby, and it spilled over to the restaurants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992</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[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me faith means not worrying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me faith means not worrying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13607</guid></item></channel></rss>