<?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[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the concerns of the present world. They know indeed that they are mortal, but they do not feel it. The truth rests in their understandings, and cannot gain admission into their hearts. This speculative persuasion is altogether different from that strong practical impression of the infinite importance of eternal things, which, attended with a proportionate sense of the shortness and uncertainty of all below, while it prompts to activity from a conviction that the night cometh when no man can work, produces a certain firmness of texture, which hardens us against the buffetings of fortune, and prevents our being very deeply penetrated by the cares and interests, the good or evil, of this transitory state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49544]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5001]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50246]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29693]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more tears now; I will think about revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more tears now; I will think about revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211]]></link><description><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   I do not think I am fanciful in discerning among some of those who most earnestly plead against the Christian social movement a feeling that there is something fundamentally intractable, inscrutable, mysterious about the world, and that no more can be hoped for than an heroic protest in the name of Christ, made in obedience but with no sort of hope that anything can come of it. I hope I am not wrong in saying that there is nothing Christian in such an attitude. It savours of the Paganism that saw behind the world a kind of ironical malice; that made Polycrates throw his ring into the sea, and called the Furies the Kindly Ones, if haply they might be so appeased.   But we stand outside this world of darkness, for we have learnt that all things were created by the eternal Word, who is Christ Jesus. We know, in the Pauline phrase, that it is in Him that the whole universal order of things consists or holds together. Those who have come to know that, know in consequence that they are in their Father's house. It is a big house, and they have begun to explore only a little of it. It has great reaches, and some of them are still shadowy. But it is His house, all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling you how far you can go or what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20133]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59086]]></link><description><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23548]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,   And think it kindness to his majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</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[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5718]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17922]]></link><description><![CDATA[What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better your room than your company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better your room than your company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. But we still have to have the right form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public of its lands, I don't think people are going to like that very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66425]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66425</guid></item></channel></rss>