<?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[One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36797]]></link><description><![CDATA[One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Someone gave me a bit of brick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Someone gave me a bit of brick and a little slab of marble from Rome. It was wonderful to touch one of them and think, Perhaps the Apostle Paul or one of the martyrs touched this as they passed. But how much more wonderful is it to think that we have, for our own use, the very same sword our Lord used when the Devil attacked Him. [Brooke Foss] Westcott says "the Word of God" in Ephesians 6:17 means "a definite utterance of God". We know these "definite utterances" -- we have the same Book that He had, and we can do as He did. So let us learn the "definite utterances" that they may be ready in our minds; ready for use at the moment of need -- our sword which never grows dull and rusty, but is always keen and bright. So once more I say, let us not expect defeat but victory. Let us take fast hold and keep fast hold of our sword, and we shall win in any assault of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,   'Tis sweethearts of glory,    'Tis lads who are unafraid!     Ferryman ho!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4957]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked him what the prognosis was. And he said that without medication, my life expectancy was about two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked him what the prognosis was. And he said that without medication, my life expectancy was about two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Britons ... never made contact with the [International Solidarity Movement], never registered to join us and never attended our mandatory training and orientation. There is in fact no connection to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44913]]></link><description><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more talke then trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49953]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more talke then trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30160]]></link><description><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a great teacher and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35113]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35113</guid></item></channel></rss>