<?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[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6370]]></link><description><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should have given us chronicles so plain and calm. They have nothing to say as from themselves. Their narratives place us without preface, and keep us without comment, among external scenes, in full view of facts, and in contact with the living person whom they teach us to know... Who can fail to recognize a divine provision for placing the disciples of all future ages as nearly as possible in the position of those who had been personally present at "the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God"?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,   And laughing long life doth bring,    Says old Simon the King.   - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17622]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; as long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54162]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm Chevy Chase and you're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19899]]></link><description><![CDATA[No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place,   Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.    There cherries grow that none may buy,     Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65214]]></link><description><![CDATA[God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25388]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The wood composite business continues to do well for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,   And think it kindness to his majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one\'s children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fort Collins is a good team, and playing a team like this will make us a very, very good team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fort Collins is a good team, and playing a team like this will make us a very, very good team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33095]]></link><description><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than anything -- gay, straight, whatever -- just how cool Willie is and ... his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hare and the TortoiseA hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hare and the TortoiseA hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58045]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not know.  (Berowne:) Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?   (King:) Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15487]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man to turn his back on God is to turn towards death; it involves ultimately the renunciation of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7565]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man to turn his back on God is to turn towards death; it involves ultimately the renunciation of every aspect of life. To deny God, man must ultimately deny that there is any law or reality. The full implications of this were seen in the [19th] century by two profound thinkers, one a Christian and the other a non-Christian.   [Friedrich W.] Nietzsche recognized fully that every atheist is an unwilling believer to the extent that he has any element of justice or order in his life, to the very extent that he is even alive and enjoys life. In his earlier writings, Nietzsche first attempted the creation of another set of standards and values, affirming life for a time, until he concluded that he could not affirm life itself nor give it any meaning, any value, apart from God. Thus Nietzsche's ultimate counsel was suicide; only then, [he asserted] can we truly deny God: and in his own life, this brilliant thinker -- one of the clearest in his description of modern Christianity and the contemporary issue -- did in effect commit a kind of psychic suicide.   The same concept was powerfully developed by [Fyodor M.] Dostoyevski, particularly in The Possessed, or, more literally, the Demon-Possessed. Kirilov, a thoroughly Nietzschean character, is very much concerned with denying God, asserting that he himself is God and that man does not need God. But at every point, Kirilov finds that no standard or structure in reality can be affirmed without ultimately asserting God, that no value can be asserted without being ultimately de rived from the Triune God. As a result, Kirilov committed suicide as the only apparently practical way of denying God and affirming himself -- for to be alive was to affirm this ontological deity in some fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7565</guid></item></channel></rss>