<?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[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You speak As one who fed on poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46743]]></link><description><![CDATA[You speak As one who fed on poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39327]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809]]></link><description><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me. David McArthur & Bruce McArthur -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17682]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42584]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, then you can't take it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a deal that started out 24 years ago with three or four of us that were tired of sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a deal that started out 24 years ago with three or four of us that were tired of sitting around watching football games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  It may be possible for each of us to think too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship --or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3416]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63402]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's child in Christ adopted -- Christ my all -- What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7842]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's child in Christ adopted -- Christ my all -- What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than forfeit that blest name, by which I call The Holy One, the Almighty God, my Father? -- Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee -- Eternal Thou and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life! -- let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! On my front I show Their mighty Master's seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe. Is that a death-bed where a Christian lies? Yes, but not his -- 'tis Death itself there dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played superbly. We were a bit worried about him after seeing how well he batted with the tail in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42701]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played superbly. We were a bit worried about him after seeing how well he batted with the tail in Perth but he was superb. Maybe we didn't get enough balls to McGrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be a strong consensus that the Fed isn't going to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30762]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be a strong consensus that the Fed isn't going to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12682]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25699]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good look. From my angle, it looked like it might fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good look. From my angle, it looked like it might fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189</guid></item></channel></rss>