<?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[Some go to the light of nature and the use of "right reason" (that is, their own) as their guides; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some go to the light of nature and the use of "right reason" (that is, their own) as their guides; and some add the additional documents of the philosophers. They think a saying of Epictetus, or Seneca, or Arrianus, being wittily suited to their fancies and affections, to have more life and power in it than any precept of the Gospel. The reason why these things are more pleasing unto them than the commands and instructions of Christ is because, proceeding from the spring of natural light, they are suited to the workings of natural fancy and understanding; but those of Christ, proceeding from the fountain of eternal spiritual light, are not comprehended in their beauty and excellency without a principle of the same light in us, guiding our understanding and influencing our affections. Hence, take any precept, general or particular, about moral duties, that is materially the same in the writings of philosophers and in the doctrine of the Gospel; not a few prefer it as delivered in the first way before the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  What do I mean by "interpret in a religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  What do I mean by "interpret in a religious sense"? In my view, that means to speak on the one hand metaphysically, and on the other individualistically. Neither of these is relevant to the Bible message or to the man of today. Is it not true to say that individualistic concern for personal salvation has almost completely left us all? Are we not really under the impression that there are more important things than bothering about such a matter? (Perhaps not more important than the matter itself, but more than bothering about it). I know it sounds pretty monstrous to say that. But is it not, at bottom, even Biblical?... It is not with the next world that we are concerned, but with this world as created and preserved and set subject to laws and atoned for and made new. What is above the world is, in the Gospel, intended to exist for this world -- I mean that not in the anthropocentric sense of liberal, pietistic, ethical theology, but in the Bible sense of the creation and of the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God has granted grace    To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,     To lift the latch, and force the way:      And better had they ne'er been born,       Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a gaming environment anywhere where you can have those restrictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a gaming environment anywhere where you can have those restrictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an outstanding first quarter with major wins for all product lines in every geography and the successful completion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37863]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an outstanding first quarter with major wins for all product lines in every geography and the successful completion of several strategic initiatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune;  Oh, for a bee's experience   Of clovers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3899]]></link><description><![CDATA[His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune;  Oh, for a bee's experience   Of clovers and of noon!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. [Lat., Omnis enim res, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61398]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. [Lat., Omnis enim res,  Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris   Divitiis parent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55929]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64424]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43363]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come back from injuries like this the actual injury is fine - it's just nagging soreness coming back. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come back from injuries like this the actual injury is fine - it's just nagging soreness coming back. I'm feeling good and close to 100 percent. If we feel that I'm ready, I'm going to go and give as much as I can. Hopefully that's the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no hospitality like understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19851]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no hospitality like understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13419]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- though they are troublesome enough. The centre of trouble is in the personality of man as a whole, which is self-centred and can only be wholesome and healthy if it is God-centred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15257]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of voites are thrown out in election after election in this country. Now that's a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of voites are thrown out in election after election in this country. Now that's a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arabs will turn round and point out the United States gives billions of dollars to Israel. It's just an area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arabs will turn round and point out the United States gives billions of dollars to Israel. It's just an area where they will have to agree to disagree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38947</guid></item></channel></rss>