<?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[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided to do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that these people had not accepted what up to that moment had been considered a necessary part of the Christian teaching. The question was whether they could be admitted without accepting the teaching and undergoing the rite. It was that question which was settled by the acknowledgement that they had received the Holy Spirit... The difficulty today is that Christians acknowledge that others have the Spirit, and yet do not recognize that they ought to be, and must be -- because spiritually they are -- in communion with one another. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown mountain height, than stooping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8125]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown mountain height, than stooping to worship the idol below them. Fear is nobler than sensuality. Fear is better than no God, better than a god made with hands. In that fear lay deep hidden the sense of the infinite. The worship of fear is true, though very low; and though not acceptable to God in itself -- for only the worship of spirit and of truth is acceptable to him -- yet even in His sight it is precious. For he regards men not as they are merely, but as they shall be; not as they shall be merely, but as they are now growing, or capable of growing, towards that image after which He made them that they might grow to it. Therefore a thousand stages, each in itself all but valueless, are of inestimable worth as the necessary and connected gradations of an infinite progress. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54399]]></link><description><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409]]></link><description><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we are centrally located and easy to find, we'd thought we'd be a good drop-off point. I thought the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we are centrally located and easy to find, we'd thought we'd be a good drop-off point. I thought the other morning, after I took a hot shower and brushed my teeth, we think of these as simple things, but for these people, these things are a luxury. This is a way that everyone can get involved and help their fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;  Spreads the fresh verdure of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;  Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads   The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress, be bold and valiant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress, be bold and valiant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45959]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2377]]></link><description><![CDATA[First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright,  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,   Seems like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright,  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,   Seems like a canopy which love has spread    To curtain her sleeping world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46592]]></link><description><![CDATA[When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's going to happen everywhere, everywhere, the first thing that's going to happen is as many people as possible are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35835]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's going to happen everywhere, everywhere, the first thing that's going to happen is as many people as possible are going to go find their kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just a little bit behind me, but I still should have made a play on it. I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just a little bit behind me, but I still should have made a play on it. I was thinking touchdown, but it was kind of dying on me so I was trying to slow down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is HUGE! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23143]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is HUGE!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19239]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item></channel></rss>