<?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[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick in a few days. I thank God for the doctor at the clinic in Joes. They drew her blood and said, 'You have 48 hours to get her to Children's (Hospital).' I was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/759]]></link><description><![CDATA[James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. We should all value intellectual sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. Peoplewho have an ear to hear can hear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. Peoplewho have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what youused to tolerate. A second point of reality. It's the loving thing to do.What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrongdisempowers people. Upsets indicate a "right" that's beenviolated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. Theonly constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. If itreally turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no"right" way. .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8059]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want us to be known as a football team, ... A program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want us to be known as a football team, ... A program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  The situation in which we find ourselves in this world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  The situation in which we find ourselves in this world seems to be a condition of estrangement from God, with little feeling of contact with Him, yet a curious nostalgic feeling that somewhere He exists and that our life would be much more complete if we were in relationship with Him. The deep, seemingly indestructible awareness of something like homesickness for God is the natural basis for believing in some kind of "fall" -- we seem to remember something better and to be possessed to recapture it. There appears to be a gap, a chasm, between God and us which must be crossed if we are to be in relationship with him. We know that our own wrongdoing can widen the chasm: we are not so sure what will close it. Yet our first great need is not for a set of rules about how to be good: it is for something to bridge that yawning canyon between us and the God we dimly seem to remember, but cannot entirely forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,   And, consecrated by the heaven within it,    The sky-blue pool a font.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46120]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles of underwriting claims very well managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to grab some quality teams for this tournament. All the teams look to be pretty evenly matched and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39036]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to grab some quality teams for this tournament. All the teams look to be pretty evenly matched and this should be a good test for us going into district play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,   They have taught me the goodness of God;    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,     When I shut them for breaking a rule;      My frown is sufficient correction;       My love is the law of the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/939</guid></item></channel></rss>