<?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[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and -- if he has attained a high degree of emancipation -- from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sandstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city -- anonymous, identical, replaceable units. In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man's loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: "Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it related to, and dis tinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?" The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43164]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22650]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551]]></link><description><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ill word may empoison liking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!  [Lat., Quam vellem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!  [Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,   Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire local workers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. And Christ is its vehicle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27654</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[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin as a life of pleasure; they have pictured virtue as self-sacrifice, austerity as religion. Even in everyday life we meet with worthy people who seem to think that whatever is pleasant must be wrong, that the true spirit of religion is crabbed, sour, and gloomy; that the bright, sunny, radiant nature which surrounds us is an evil and not a blessing, -- a temptation devised by the Spirit of Evil and not one of the greatest delights showered on us in such profusion by the Author of all Good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the balmy air of night    How they ring out their delight!     From the molten golden notes,      And all in tune       What a liquid ditty floats        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats         On the moon!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63580]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and catch my breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and catch my breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team hangs in there. Their goaltender gives them a chance to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm  It is the woman's part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51242]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm  It is the woman's part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984</guid></item></channel></rss>