<?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[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37277]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a mix of technology, resources and a temporary-worker program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand the Gospel, the good news about our brother-king -- until we understand Him, until we have His Spirit, promised so freely to them that ask it -- all the Epistles, the words of men who were full of Him, and wrote out of that fullness, who loved Him so utterly that by that very love they were lifted into the air of pure reason and right, and would die for Him, without two thoughts about it, in the very simplicity of no choice -- the Letters, I say, of such men are to us a sealed book. Until we love the Lord so as to do what He tells us, we have no right to an opinion about what one of those men meant; for all they wrote is about things beyond us. The simplest woman who tries not to judge her neighbor, or not to be anxious for the morrow, will better know what is best to know, than the best-read bishop without that one simple outgoing of his highest nature in the effort to do the will of Him who thus spoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37986]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45132]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45191]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45191</guid></item><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[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  Now the world should be able to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  Now the world should be able to see in the Church those marks [which show] that there is a substantial sociological healing possible in the present generation. It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply duty hath no place for fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply duty hath no place for fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37068]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he hit a stepping stone in doing so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22150]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learned what lines you could and could not cross ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learned what lines you could and could not cross]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more   I hold my most malicious for and think not    At all a friend to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21951</guid></item></channel></rss>