<?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[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious to point out that the classical images which have been used, with more or less success, to depict different aspects of the Redemption -- the winning of a battle, the liberation of captives, the payment of a fine or debt, the curing of a disease, and so on -- are not to be interpreted literally, any more than, when we say that the eternal Word "came down from Heaven", we are describing a process of spatial translation. For here we are dealing with processes and events which, by the nature of the case, cannot be precisely described in everyday language...  The matter is quite different with such a statement as that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary; for, whatever aspects of the Incarnation outstrip the descriptive power of ordinary language, this at least is plainly statable in it. It means that Jesus was conceived in his mother's womb without previous sexual intercourse on her part with any male human being, and this is a straightforward statement which is either true or false. To say that the birth... of Jesus Christ cannot simply be thought of as a biological event, and to add that this is [not] what the Virgin Birth means, is a plain misuse of language; and no amount of talk about the appealing character of the "Christmas myth" can validly gloss this over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1806]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5936]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39958]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and sometimes after the particular interpretation itself. I need not now attempt to make precise these heresies, as they came to be called. It is necessary only to point out that in various ways all these heresies were simplifications. By means of them, the revelation of God to men was made -- or appeared to be made -- less scandalous. On the other hand, the various clauses of the Creed were not formulated as a new simplification, or as an alternative-ism. They were nothing more than emphatic statements of the Biblical scandal, statements which brought into sharp antagonism the new simplification and the old, Scriptural, many-sided, and vigorous truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52278]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39656</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/6654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were even on errors, but we just couldn't get the hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the night-dew, fain headed,    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem     The fittest foliage for a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engines for growth are not only early-stage life science and information technology, but additions and expansion, taking existing companies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engines for growth are not only early-stage life science and information technology, but additions and expansion, taking existing companies to a hundred employees and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7558]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so that to his knowledge there is nothing future or past, but all things are present. And they are present in such a way that he not only conceives them through ideas, as we have before us those things which our minds remember, but he truly looks upon them and discerns them as things placed before him. And this foreknowledge is extended throughout the universe to every creature. We call predestination God's eternal decree, by which he determined with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others. Therefore, as any man has been created to one or the other of these ends, we speak of him as predestined to life or death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with Denver and New Jersey, however all our real focus was on resigning with the Bobcats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60378]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34803]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44919</guid></item></channel></rss>