<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chiefrequirements of life, when all that we need to make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chiefrequirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is somethingto be enthusiastic about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61166]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls had to play in the rain for most of the first nine holes and the wind was gusting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls had to play in the rain for most of the first nine holes and the wind was gusting for the whole day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10217]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will take many, many years to unwind, but we wouldn't count Lucent out, even with some of these problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31760]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will take many, many years to unwind, but we wouldn't count Lucent out, even with some of these problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, it seems, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, it seems, must be used to reclaim them. But is gospel conviction no means? Hath the sword of discipline no edge? Is there no means of instruction in the New Testament established, but a prison and a halter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The youth hunt gives a kid a chance before the adults clean up. Its cool my dad takes us out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The youth hunt gives a kid a chance before the adults clean up. Its cool my dad takes us out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company will have to find a way to incorporate these kind of technologies in into their future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company will have to find a way to incorporate these kind of technologies in into their future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10665]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  Facti crimen habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33929]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41329]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going to be prepared to do mop-up duty.' I don't think we would have won. I think they would have had an unprepared quarterback.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem to you to be saying something quite academic and theoretical. You would be surprised if you knew how soon one begins to feel the shortness of the tether: of how many things, even in middle life, we have to say, "No time for that", "Too late now" and "Not for me". But Nature herself forbids you [young people] to share that experience. A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age, is that of leaving futurity in God's hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government will fall that raises the price of beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government will fall that raises the price of beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the best solution today. We are expanding beyond the financial sector by utilizing our mid-market machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the best solution today. We are expanding beyond the financial sector by utilizing our mid-market machines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking for. ... I need to get in and out of cuts ASAP. I need to be as good at that as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45580]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, or both negotiate their differences and create a greater partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhere -- all the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46442</guid></item></channel></rss>