<?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[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to revisit that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17739]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no problem having money in the bank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no problem having money in the bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want to try to bring them all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements Educate the eye and lip With one's refreshing innocence, The other's claim to scholarship. The serpent's knowledge of the world Learn, and the dove's more naïve charm; Whether your ringlets should be curled, And why he likes his claret warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry;All those who see me, and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping we could develop a code fair to everyone throughout the city, but more importantly we need to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping we could develop a code fair to everyone throughout the city, but more importantly we need to have backbone to enforce whatever we do adopt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we still have a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19003]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more quickly. If there are problems on weekends, there's always somebody around to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56164]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8575</guid></item></channel></rss>