<?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[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51910]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49273]]></link><description><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good look. From my angle, it looked like it might fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good look. From my angle, it looked like it might fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34595]]></link><description><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... That same philosophy that allowed us to win the space race slowed us down after the space race. The same people were in charge, the same philosophy was there. There was no incentive to make it economical or commercially feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4425]]></link><description><![CDATA[An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full mind is an empty bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full mind is an empty bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke   When round the ruins of their ancient oak    The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play,     And games and carols closed the busy day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a call out to the community and surrounding areas to let them know about the situation we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41495]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a call out to the community and surrounding areas to let them know about the situation we are in to stay open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle, there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48428]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6691]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.   ... Søren Kierkegaard August 16, 2000   By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, the Saviour, we renounce all mysticism. For mysticism in the strict sense exists only where one soars above the sphere of history, and where in place of the Mediator and the historical event are put the inner word of God, the inner motions of the soul, in order to reach immediacy between soul and God, and, in the end, the identity of both. But while it is necessary to safeguard the Christian message of the Holy Spirit from the mystical misunderstanding by calling attention to its relation to Jesus Christ, it is necessary on the other hand to safeguard the message of Jesus Christ and His work from the orthodox and rationalist misunderstanding by emphasizing that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we have. You can draw a lot of positives from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful about the balance so we have a mix of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall we now   Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,    And sell the mighty space of our large honors     For so much trash as may be grasped thus?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14044]]></link><description><![CDATA[As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22797]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,   The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes    In wild despair; while yet another stroke     With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:      Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!       She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9303]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24040]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form-criticism... has made an end of the false notion, which for a long time dominated critical scholarship, that it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form-criticism... has made an end of the false notion, which for a long time dominated critical scholarship, that it was possible throughout the gospels to distill from them a "Life of Jesus" that would be free from dogmatic presuppositions and not affected by any "retouching" derived from the faith of the Church. In fact, however, faith in Jesus Christ crucified and risen did not first appear at some later stage in the tradition, but was the foundation of the tradition, the very soil out of which it grew; and it is in light of that faith alone that the tradition can be understood. This faith in Jesus Christ, the Crucified and Exalted One, explains both the things which the primitive tradition makes known to us, with its manifest concern for the factual truth of the tradition about Jesus, and at the same time the peculiar liberty which the evangelists take in making alterations in the record in points of detail. In relating the acts and words of Jesus, they do not refer back to any sort of "archives" possessed by the community... Jesus Christ is not for them a figure of past history whose proper place is in a library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59701</guid></item></channel></rss>