<?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[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4588]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here that our awareness that Jesus is our contemporary and that Calvary is relevant to our present human situation ought to help us greatly. And that is not merely because in his relationships with others during his earthly life in Palestine Jesus exemplified all that I have tried to say about human relationships. In every genuine human encounter with another person we may become aware of Jesus, and meet with him. This may sound fanciful, but there is much in the Scriptures and in Christian experience which suggests that Jesus is frequently met in the traffic of person with person, provided that there is a genuine encounter between them. Jesus himself showed that for this to happen demands courage and a willingness to move from a life that is centred in itself. So if we are to pass out of that lonely world of isolation then we must be prepared to take the risks that are always involved when we allow persons to confront us as persons and do not regard them as things. Yet, dangerous though it may be to live in this way, it is the only way to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.(on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.(on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a hero without love for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19269]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a hero without love for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest books are those that never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54695]]></link><description><![CDATA[To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15714]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum  Quaerere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock my arms out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19319]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God's truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when... five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already. Beware of being wise and prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61821]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item></channel></rss>