<?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[For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47220]]></link><description><![CDATA[For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57081]]></link><description><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36563]]></link><description><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person in all his human uniqueness, an impression which is accessible alike to the layman and to the expert, to believer and non-believer. No reader of the gospel story can fail to be impressed by Jesus' humble submission to the will of his God on the one hand, and his mastery of all situations on the other; by his penetrating discernment of human motives and his authoritative demand of radical obedience on the one hand, and his gracious, forgiving acceptance of sinners on the other. There is nothing, either in the Messianic hopes of pre-Christian Judaism or in the later Messianic beliefs of the early Christian Church to account for this portrait. It is characterized by an originality and freshness which is beyond the power of invention. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14953]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed night, when first that plain Echoed with the joyful strain, "Peace has come to earth again!" Blessed hills, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed night, when first that plain Echoed with the joyful strain, "Peace has come to earth again!" Blessed hills, that heard the song Of the glorious angel-throng, Swelling all your slopes along. Happy shepherds, on whose ear Fell the tidings glad and dear, "God to man is drawing near." Happy, happy, Bethlehem, Judah's least but brightest gem, Where the rod from Jesse's stem, Scion of a princely race, Sprung in Heaven's own perfect grace, Yet in feeble lowliness. This, the woman's promised seed, Abram's mighty Son indeed; Succourer of earth's great need. This the victor in our war, This the glory see afar, This the light of Jacob's star! Happy Judah, rise and own Him the heir of David's throne David's Lord, and David's Son. Let the dayspring from on high. That arose in Judah's sky. Cover earth eternally. Babe of Bethlehem, to Thee, Infant of eternity, Everlasting glory be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66513]]></link><description><![CDATA[My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of glorified bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47141]]></link><description><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[personal attachment to the upper Chattooga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33905]]></link><description><![CDATA[personal attachment to the upper Chattooga.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12331]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49336]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7754]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a tragic death, and so long as his ideas of Christianity are bounded by what he calls the Sermon on the Mount (which he has almost certainly not read in its entirety since he became grown-up), then the living truth never has a chance to touch him. This is plainly what has happened to many otherwise intelligent people. Over the years I have had hundreds of conversations with people, many of them of higher intellectual calibre than my own, who quite obviously had no idea of what Christianity is really about. I was in no case trying to catch them out: I was simply and gently trying to find out what they knew about the New Testament. My conclusion was that they knew virtually nothing. This I find pathetic and somewhat horrifying. It means that the most important Event in human history is politely and quietly bypassed. For it is not as though the evidence had been examined and found unconvincing: it had simply never been examined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell your teacher, tell your mother, somebody you can trust. Always trust a policeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22530</guid></item></channel></rss>