<?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 Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Gospel used to be presented as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Gospel used to be presented as an appeal to believe in the Saviour who "did it all for me long ago", and then retired to a remote heaven where He receives the homage of believers till He comes again to inaugurate the Millennium. The mind of our generation, having little comprehension or taste for such a message, is usually content to try to discover "the Jesus of history", conceived as a human example and teacher of a distant past. Meanwhile, there exists always alongside all forms of religious belief the great tradition of mystical experience. The mystic knows that, whatever be the truth about an historic act or person, there is a Spirit dwelling in man. In our time, even natural science abates its arrogant denials and admits the possibility of such immanence... The weak point of mysticism, as seen at least by a matter-of-fact person, is that it is apt to be so nebulous ethically. What the Immanent is, those who claim most traffic with It can often least tell us. Is It a power making for righteousness, or is It a higher synthesis of good and evil? Or is It not a moral -- that is to say, not a personal Being at all?... The raising of these questions is not intended to throw any doubt upon the validity of mystical experience as such; but we have a right to ask what content is given in the experience. Paul was a mystic, but all his mystical experience had a personal object. It was Jesus Christ, a real, living person --historic, yet not of the past alone; divine, yet not alien from humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things deteriorate in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51782]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things deteriorate in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all is said and done, more is said than done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63349]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all is said and done, more is said than done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63349</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[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747]]></link><description><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39225]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mistakes are all waiting to be made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mistakes are all waiting to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With an industry leading product platform and a growing customer base, the need to continue to deliver exceptional customer service is paramount. We are delighted that Business Objects has selected Knova's service resolution management applications for customer service and look forward to a strong partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because it's there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because it's there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18720]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33097]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all revolves around Coach Willy. He's been my coach and my mentor since I was four years old. When we're swimming, he doesn't even have to say anything. Just the thought of him being there forces you to try harder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47413</guid></item></channel></rss>