<?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[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, no thought could be had of a permanent structure for gatherings. This would only facilitate matters for the Roman government in its merciless persecutions. The early Church was very conscious of its pilgrim character in a world which was at enmity with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only leads you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good. The philosophers promised them to you, and have not been able to keep their promises... Your principal maladies are pride, which cuts you off from God, and sensuality, which binds you to the earth; and they have done nothing but foster at least one of these maladies. If they have given you God for your object, it has only been to pander to your pride; they have made you think that you were like Him and resembled Him by your nature. And those who have grasped the vanity of such a pretension have cast you down into the other abyss by making you believe that your nature was like that of the beasts of the field, and have led you to seek your good in lust, which is the lot of animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6008]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153]]></link><description><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21090]]></link><description><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9271]]></link><description><![CDATA[People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.   ... Blaise Pascal July 29, 2000 Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to meet life's situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to meet life's situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24687]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations than any other economist in the country. He's a wonderful politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the concerns that we would have would be whether it is accurate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32906]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the concerns that we would have would be whether it is accurate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an amazing feeling to have, I find it very hard to believe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an amazing feeling to have, I find it very hard to believe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43953]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault on Ms. King, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault on Ms. King,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51149]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59489]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and reason strong,   For his advantage still did wake and sleep.    To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,     He had the dialect and different skill,      Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56953]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38361]]></link><description><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. Itwill get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. Itwill get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your wholelife be a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a lot of character parts in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21019</guid></item></channel></rss>