<?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 people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, and revolutionary than any socialism, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, and revolutionary than any socialism, which spoke of the good news to the poor, release for prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind. The Church must learn to stand solidly behind all efforts to bring fuller life to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would be no great men if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22487]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would be no great men if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible:  Mirth cannot move a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible:  Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a lot of development and planning experience in the Central Valley, not Bay Area experience, and that's important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a lot of development and planning experience in the Central Valley, not Bay Area experience, and that's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27315]]></link><description><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctionsbetween flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time andmatter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so longforgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul isnothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life ofevery woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 points,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods on shore dim,   We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;    Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,     The rapids are near and the daylight's past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography helps people to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography helps people to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like a workable compromise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like a workable compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16450]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not expect good from another's death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not expect good from another's death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29857]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15434]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39545]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still doesn't account for the way we played interior defense and the way we played interior offense. I'm disappointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still doesn't account for the way we played interior defense and the way we played interior offense. I'm disappointed with our effort tonight. We didn't play with much poise. I expected more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4530]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34278]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19331]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60175</guid></item></channel></rss>