<?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[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42782</guid></item><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 end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55702]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643]]></link><description><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,   When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59796]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46257]]></link><description><![CDATA[To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20067]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved. [Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a difference for many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a difference for many New Yorkers, especially those who pay full retail for their drugs. We are fighting to ensure the drug that ends up in your medicine cabinet is the very best one for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14099]]></link><description><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37772]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22139]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a really wonderful way of looking at leadership development. What we're saying is, if you understand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a really wonderful way of looking at leadership development. What we're saying is, if you understand the broad issues that make up the life of the city, if you understand its history, if you understand its architecture and its neighborhood and its place, if you understand some of the ethical dilemmas that leaders must face as they make different choices about a city, and if you can articulate that in some kind of a creative process, then you are prepared to take an active role in decisions and choices that affect your life as well as the city's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56696]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36725</guid></item></channel></rss>