<?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[Come home to men's business and bosoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom sails with wind and time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom sails with wind and time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37237]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Most Christians live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Most Christians live in confusion in regard to their scales of values and priorities. Many honest Christian people experience the shock of a revelation when they are brought to realize that their membership of the Church constitutes a loyalty prior to their loyalty to the nation to which they belong. Patriotism is one of the powerful underground pseudo-religions of to-day, not merely nationalism. The fundamental notion that the Christians are a "peculiar people" that never is identical, or even can be, with a people in the biological, national sense of the word, is largely asleep. It can only become awake by a new grasp of the biblical truth that the Church is the "people of God", an elect race composed of people out of all nations, transcending all nations and races.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54609]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is like pulling out a machine gun today. People did not want to get cut by that sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is like pulling out a machine gun today. People did not want to get cut by that sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13859]]></link><description><![CDATA[What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61208]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38659]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased pariahs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's months later (and) you're getting this call, and you've got to show up again. It's all going to come back up again, and you feel that you've managed to forget about it you're sleeping through the night the last thing you want is to bring this all back up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60198</guid></item></channel></rss>