<?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 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... easy task. At first sight, it may seem that they have only to proclaim and declare; but in fact, if their words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words, shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. This means, in practice, turning a face of flint toward the easy cliche, the well-worn religious cant and phraseology -- dear, no doubt, to the faithful, but utterly meaningless to those outside the fold. It means learning how people are thinking and how they are feeling; it means learning with patience, imagination and ingenuity the way to pierce apathy or blank lack of understanding. I sometimes wonder what hours of prayer and thought lie behind the apparently simple and spontaneous parables of the Gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that matters. It's something they'll remember and take with them the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19406]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God -- that his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66238]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44381]]></link><description><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not actively pursue a US acquisition, and that is a significant change from where we were before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40650]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not actively pursue a US acquisition, and that is a significant change from where we were before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. Better bend than break. Never swap horses while crossing a stream.Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Fail to plan, plan to fail. -Carl W. Buechner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43989]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,   Survey our empire, and behold our home!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women),   Be worse provided than a common archer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our success will depend on how fast the juniors and sophomores can adjust to the varsity game. We have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our success will depend on how fast the juniors and sophomores can adjust to the varsity game. We have a very talented younger group. This first year AA will be a challenge for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32928]]></link><description><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad are only those who understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sad are only those who understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their speed behold advancing   Modern men and women dancing;    Step and dress alike express     Above, below from heel to toe,      Male and female awkwardness.       Without a hoop, without a ruffle,        One eternal jig and shuffle,         Where's the air and where's the gait?          Where's the feather in the hat?           Where the frizzed toupee? and where            Oh! where's the powder for the hair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire local workers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42816]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6529</guid></item></channel></rss>