<?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 Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8989]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63282]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65265]]></link><description><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once known as Christendom force one to confront the question whether the path of Wisdom is not rather to attempt to work out a Christian doctrine of modern society and to order our national life in accordance with it? Those who would give a quick, easy or confident answer to this question have failed to understand it. It cannot even be seriously considered without a profound awareness of the extent to which Christian ideas have lost their hold over, or faded from the consciousness of, large sections of the population; of the far-reaching changes that would be called for in the structure, institutions and activities of existing society, which is in many of its features a complete denial of the Christian understanding of the meaning and end of man's existence; and of the stupendous and costly spiritual, moral, and intellectual effort that any genuine attempt to order national life in accordance with the Christian understanding of life would demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50484]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles with the hurricanes, he decided to do us a favor and perform here. He hasn't played a place this small in 20 years. He might have a tough guy image, but he has a lot of heart, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For everything else, there is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63231]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For everything else, there is an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30215]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the best thing you can do in racing. I had so much success with Tom and PTG. Then to reincarnate that relationship with Yokohama is a tremendous positive. This thing is going to be a winning program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54293]]></link><description><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36710]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36710</guid></item></channel></rss>