<?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[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to find your talents. Your teachers, your principals, they believe in you, but they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to find your talents. Your teachers, your principals, they believe in you, but they can?t believe in you for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31935]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth laughs in flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth laughs in flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn decorations all   Of the great tomb of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  I fear that many people seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  I fear that many people seek to hear God solely as a device for securing their own safety, comfort and righteousness. For those who busy themselves to know the will of God, however, it is still true that "those who want to save their life will lose it." My extreme preoccupation with knowing God's will for me may only indicate, contrary to what is often thought, that I am overconcerned with myself, not a Christlike interest in the well-being of others or in the glory of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   I do not think I am fanciful in discerning among some of those who most earnestly plead against the Christian social movement a feeling that there is something fundamentally intractable, inscrutable, mysterious about the world, and that no more can be hoped for than an heroic protest in the name of Christ, made in obedience but with no sort of hope that anything can come of it. I hope I am not wrong in saying that there is nothing Christian in such an attitude. It savours of the Paganism that saw behind the world a kind of ironical malice; that made Polycrates throw his ring into the sea, and called the Furies the Kindly Ones, if haply they might be so appeased.   But we stand outside this world of darkness, for we have learnt that all things were created by the eternal Word, who is Christ Jesus. We know, in the Pauline phrase, that it is in Him that the whole universal order of things consists or holds together. Those who have come to know that, know in consequence that they are in their Father's house. It is a big house, and they have begun to explore only a little of it. It has great reaches, and some of them are still shadowy. But it is His house, all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3671]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we frankly give, forever is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55184]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25843]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What turned this case, what led them to arrest Lisa were statements from Tim Holland. When we get a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29209]]></link><description><![CDATA[What turned this case, what led them to arrest Lisa were statements from Tim Holland. When we get a chance to present our information, I think you'll see he's not a credible source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of truth is said in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of truth is said in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16491]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever won silver. We came through there, and we think we can do it again at the Olympics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33575]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes of the last meal and proposals for the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59</guid></item></channel></rss>