<?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[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9811]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he ismaking money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he ismaking money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11519]]></link><description><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62678]]></link><description><![CDATA[During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel is all promises on God's part, and that our part is only to believe them and to rely upon God for the performance of them, and to be very confident that He will make them good, though we do nothing else but only believe that He will do so. That the Christian religion is only a declaration of God's goodwill to us, without any expectation of duty from us -- this is an error which one could hardly think could ever enter into any who have the liberty to read the Bible and attend to what they read and find there. The three great promises of the gospel are all very expressly contained in our Saviour's first sermon upon the mount. There we find the promise of blessedness often repeated but never absolutely made, but upon certain conditions, plainly required on our part, as repentance, righteousness, humility, mercy, peaceableness, meekness, patience. Forgiveness of sins is likewise promised, but only to those who make a penitent acknowledgement of them and ask forgiveness for them., and are ready to grant that forgiveness to others which they beg of God for themselves. The gift of God's Holy Spirit is likewise promised, but it is upon condition of our earnest and importunate prayer to God. The gospel is everywhere full of precepts enjoining duty and obedience upon our part, as well as of promises on God's part, assuring blessings to us -- nay, full of terrible threatenings also if we disobey the precepts of the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a need and fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a need and fill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49169]]></link><description><![CDATA[By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42525]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bullet has its billet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bullet has its billet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be  A face more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be  A face more pleasant than the face of men.   Thy waves are old companions, I shall see    A well remembered form in each old tree     And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18500]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18620]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment thescroll. I am the master of my fate. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment thescroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51800]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23399]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I good? I think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I good? I think so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59052]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12471]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52837</guid></item></channel></rss>