<?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[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and -- if he has attained a high degree of emancipation -- from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sandstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city -- anonymous, identical, replaceable units. In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man's loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: "Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it related to, and dis tinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?" The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,   She feels it instantly on every side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, ... It's a beautiful crazy cleaned-up hand and it's not mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, ... It's a beautiful crazy cleaned-up hand and it's not mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64456]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an authority so high [as Scripture], admit but one officious lie, and there will not remain a single passage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8446]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an authority so high [as Scripture], admit but one officious lie, and there will not remain a single passage of those apparently difficult to practice or to believe, which on the same most pernicious rule may not be explained as a lie uttered by the author willfully to serve a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it up again very fast. He actually turned into a really good worker and adapted to the WWE style, meaning he did more than just shoot-style stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard being a leader for so long, being a focal point for so long, and then it kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard being a leader for so long, being a focal point for so long, and then it kind of abruptly stops. It's nice to be back in the mix. It's also nice not to have 'THE PLAYER' pressure on me anymore. It's on other guys this year. It's going to give me an opportunity to go ahead and play and let the other people have that type of attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â their numbers are up, but it's still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1229]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian Unity is not a secular unity, and must be prompted by no secular motive. The unity we seek is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian Unity is not a secular unity, and must be prompted by no secular motive. The unity we seek is deeper than anything that the world offers. Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, and even Shintoism have proved their ability to bind men together in a common enterprise with great devotion and selfsacrifice; but these are secular ideals, intermixed with selfinterest, the love of master, and the use of force. Christian Unity can only be "in Christ". It is based on the New Birth and New Life in Christ, and upon the oneness of all the members in the Christ who is the Head. Therefore, "the quest for the unity of the Church must in fact be identical with the quest for Jesus Christ as the concrete Head and Lord of the Church." (Barth) What kind of unity, then, do we ask? It must be God's kind, that for which Christ prayed, and which, therefore, must be in the line of God's purpose. Will He not then take the initiative? It is for us to wait upon Him, and to go through the gates which He opens, to cast up the highway, to gather out the stones of stumbling, to lift up the standard, and to prepare the way of the Lord. (Isa. 62:10).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I speak two languages, Body and English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I speak two languages, Body and English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871</guid></item></channel></rss>