<?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[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22880]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose three unexcused absences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose three unexcused absences required that the individual's name be automatically dropped from the roll, and he could be reinstated only by special vote of the body. Suppose absences from services had to be made up by attending services in some other place, or by carrying out some special project. Suppose church members had to be re-elected to membership each year, and that their attendance and participation in the program of activities determined how the vote went. Oh, well -- just suppose.   ... from The Baptist Messenger  September 16, 2002 Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden, under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see--brigands on the high roads, pirates on the seas; in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds; under all roofs misery and selfishness. It is really a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. Yet in the midst of it I have found a quiet and holy people. They have discovered a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasures of this sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are the Christians -- and I am one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? We proved to people we could play and that gave us confidence heading into states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy family is but an earlier heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder to break. But we've made a lot of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt is the best young executive in the group. Right now, I have a hard time getting institutional investors interested in McClatchy, frankly. But with this merger, McClatchy becomes the most interesting name in the group. It goes from an interesting little niche story to a major story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would lovingly carry out this historic mission even if it cost me my life. If I become a national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would lovingly carry out this historic mission even if it cost me my life. If I become a national hero in America, this would be good for the Turkish people and the Turkish state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit in your place and none can make you rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something we knew was going to be ultimately decided by the Law Court. We're prepared to do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something we knew was going to be ultimately decided by the Law Court. We're prepared to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65379]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47589]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61061]]></link><description><![CDATA["A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set in opposition to the world existing beyond its borders and outside its influence, so that there comes into being a tension between the world as it actually is and the Church, in so far as the Church rests upon the Biblical revelation of God. But this tension is not something that concerns the Church and the world as though they are things which exist outside us and apart from us, which we can consider and observe and discuss and have theories about. The tension between the Church and the world exists within us and is the very fiber of our being, and neither the one nor the other is superficial or trivial. For we are, all of us, of the earth, earthy; and we are also baptized members of Christ and His Church. It is precisely because we belong to two worlds that our lives consist in insecurity -- that we are, in fact, a drama, the final act of which, the judgement of reward or punishment, heaven or hell, is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought to be submitted. And how absurd would it be that in satisfying men you should incur the displeasure of him for whose sake you obey men themselves! The Lord, therefore, is the King of Kings, who, when he has opened his sacred mouth, must alone be heard, before all and above all men; next to him we are subject to those men who are in authority over us, but only in him. If they command anything against him, let it go unesteemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10235</guid></item></channel></rss>