<?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[Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11950]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3974]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not stuff you do when you're worrying about an election, ... As he looks at these projects, he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not stuff you do when you're worrying about an election, ... As he looks at these projects, he doesn't ever say, 'Let's do less and rest on the record.' The guy continues to lead with his chin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41268]]></link><description><![CDATA[will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether it meets the conditions President Clinton has outlined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</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[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50621]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2862]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60055]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Every moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbor or not. We must get into action and obey -- we must behave like a neighbor to him. But perhaps this shocks you. Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that, there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. It is no use asking questions; for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But we've offered him a professional contract and we want to keep him here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46310]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36177]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ability of governments like Brazil to enforce environmental laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorely disappointed by the congresswoman's decision to proceed with her playboy fund-raiser, ... We have done everything we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorely disappointed by the congresswoman's decision to proceed with her playboy fund-raiser, ... We have done everything we can and now we have no alternative but to take action. Loretta Sanchez will not be speaking at the Democratic National Convention next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and procedures that deny the President justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773]]></link><description><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773</guid></item></channel></rss>