<?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[There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot of public dollars being spent to have all these people sitting around going through a pre-app. Some people come in and don't have a clue what they want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â± it was sheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38774]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â± it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that child is a message in a bottle, ... it has just washed up on shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30811]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that child is a message in a bottle, ... it has just washed up on shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you can do more damage than good if you don't do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. And we're not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58279]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him to rest tonight. We don't know how long it will be before we have him back. We didn't want to risk making it worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25132]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35380]]></link><description><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4486]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures are small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost their traditional religious faith, and they provide a kind of pseudo-religion to take its place. Ideology may well be defined as religion-substitute. The fact that religious faith expresses itself in the particular ideological forms current in any given period is no reason why we should confuse religion with ideology; and, even though it requires a penetrating and candid investigation to distinguish between the genuinely religious and the merely ideological elements in the outlook of a particular period or individual, this does not mean that religion itself is an aspect of ideology. The core of religious belief is not ideological, whatever may be said of the soft pulp in which it is wrapped up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of how an unholy concourse of sinful men and women can be in truth the body of Christ is the same as the problem of how a sinful man can at the same time be accepted as a child of God... Our present situation arises precisely from the fact that this fundamental insight, which the Reformers applied to the position of the Christian man, was not followed through in its application to the nature of the Christian church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7554]]></link><description><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some fatigue among the average Republican. They're tired of it all. They're tired of scandals. They're tired of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some fatigue among the average Republican. They're tired of it all. They're tired of scandals. They're tired of the White House. They're ready for change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39622</guid></item></channel></rss>