<?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[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44419]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to think that will translate to the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45616]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy   Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,    Which scorns a modern invocation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may    Occasionally say,     I never never use a big, big D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/146]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21753]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been suspicious of collective truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been suspicious of collective truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligence which has learned to be a law to itself, criticising, rejecting, appropriating, assimilating, cannot deny its nature and suspend its functions when it opens the New Testament. It cannot make itself the slave of men, not even though the men are Peter and Paul and John; no, not even though it were the Son of Man Himself. It resents dictation, not willfully nor wantonly, but because it must; and it resents it all the more when it claims to be inspired. If, therefore, the Atonement can only be received by those who are prepared from the threshold to acknowledge the inspiration and the consequent authority of Scripture, it can never be received by modern men at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12036]]></link><description><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Gospel used to be presented as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Gospel used to be presented as an appeal to believe in the Saviour who "did it all for me long ago", and then retired to a remote heaven where He receives the homage of believers till He comes again to inaugurate the Millennium. The mind of our generation, having little comprehension or taste for such a message, is usually content to try to discover "the Jesus of history", conceived as a human example and teacher of a distant past. Meanwhile, there exists always alongside all forms of religious belief the great tradition of mystical experience. The mystic knows that, whatever be the truth about an historic act or person, there is a Spirit dwelling in man. In our time, even natural science abates its arrogant denials and admits the possibility of such immanence... The weak point of mysticism, as seen at least by a matter-of-fact person, is that it is apt to be so nebulous ethically. What the Immanent is, those who claim most traffic with It can often least tell us. Is It a power making for righteousness, or is It a higher synthesis of good and evil? Or is It not a moral -- that is to say, not a personal Being at all?... The raising of these questions is not intended to throw any doubt upon the validity of mystical experience as such; but we have a right to ask what content is given in the experience. Paul was a mystic, but all his mystical experience had a personal object. It was Jesus Christ, a real, living person --historic, yet not of the past alone; divine, yet not alien from humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married in haste we may repent at leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married in haste we may repent at leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight  (Mysterious veil, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight  (Mysterious veil, of brightness made,)   That's both her lustre and her shade),    And in the lantern of the night,     With shining horns hung out her light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:  Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is a great procuress ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is a great procuress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to get out there -- this was their first night -- and they didn't get to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10365]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44270]]></link><description><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item></channel></rss>