<?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[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continued from yesterday:  He, then, whose action is governed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continued from yesterday:  He, then, whose action is governed by mere desire is not free to attain the satisfaction which alone gives meaning to that desire. There is no breaking through this law of our being. Every attempt to do so proves itself in experience to be futile. Hence we are in a more helpless state of bondage than that which materialistic determinism holds; for the tyrant is established within our own consciousness. One way, and one way only, out of this bondage remains. If we can discover how to make our own immediate desire, and the act of will springing out of it, accord with the supreme law of our being, then to "do as we like" will no longer be to run our heads against the stone wall of necessity which shuts us out from the heaven of satisfaction. For we shall only "like" doing what we "ought". This introduces a new sense of the word "freedom". It does not now mean freedom from restrains to follow our desires, but freedom from the tyranny of futile desires to follow what is really good. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41262]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30858]]></link><description><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't want to dictate morality to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57942]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356]]></link><description><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he has only half a brain, while outside, in the world, he is expected to be an ambassador for Christ, a lay transmitter of faith. Outside, he is to be informed and vocal; inside, he must appear ignorant and mute as a sheep. Christians have within them many questions -- questions that are at once elementary and profound, questions that would ripple the water were they raised. However, because a Christian is supposed to have "answers", life's important questions are not discussed outside the church building; and, because the pastor is the educated, spiritual authority, they are not discussed inside either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36587]]></link><description><![CDATA[They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they came to John Tyler they were really disappointed that they had to go there and they felt really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they came to John Tyler they were really disappointed that they had to go there and they felt really unwanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met;  Not one fair scene or kindly smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met;  Not one fair scene or kindly smile   Can this fond heart forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53570]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have thirty-one:    Unless that leap-year doth combine,     And give to February twenty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391</guid></item></channel></rss>